Bob Violino

OPPORTUNITY Businesses have a lot riding on their networks. The data moving between devices and facilities is the lifeblood of an enterprise, and if that information is compromised, the results could be disastrous. One of the keys to protecting networks and systems is to know exactly what type of activity is occurring on them. Network […]

There is no doubt about it: Service-oriented architecture, or SOA, has gained acceptance as a way to exchange data previously trapped in legacy systems and isolated databases. The I.T. architecture supports the integration of business processes as linked services or repeatable business tasks that can be accessed to make those applications and databases available as […]

Over the past five years, electricity distributor Southside Electric Cooperative in south-central Virginia has seen the number of accounts it services increase by 73%, from 30,000 to 52,000. While it grew, the utility’s management team sought to maintain good customer relations—from responding to a request for account information to a service outage. Problem was, Southside […]

Managing the identity of people who have access to critical business data has long been a key component of effective information security strategies. But it’s taken on greater urgency with the push to mitigate corporate risk by restricting access to applications and information. Identity and access management tools verify the identity of people—including employees, business […]