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RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), recently announced the results of a study conducted by the  Ponemon Institute  looking at the cost of fraud and online disruption coincident with Cyber Monday. The study surveyed 1,100 IT staff inside of retail organizations in the U.S. and UK. Some of the  key HIGHLIGHTS  are :  According to a new study by RSA and the Ponemon Institute, Cyber Monday represents an average 55 percent surge in daily online/mobile retail revenues. A corresponding surge in attacks drives hard losses, on average, as much as $500,000 per hour or $8,000 per minute. Customer churn from reputation and brand damage can drive losses to as much as $3.4 million from a single hour of disruption. While 64 percent of organizations see significant increases in attack activity, only 23 percent of attacks can be detected quickly and remediated, and nearly 70 percent of organizations do not take additional precautions in anticipation o...

RSA Security Briefs  provide security leaders and risk management executives with essential guidance on today's most pressing information security threats and opportunities. Each Brief is created by a select team of experts who connect experiences across organizations to share specialized knowledge on a critical security topic. Offering both big-picture insight and practical technology guidance, RSA Security Briefs are vital reading for today's forward-thinking security and risk management practitioners.  In the New report, Security Operations Experts Provide Guidance for Improving Readiness and Response. Some of the Key HIGHLIGHTS are :  Expert consultants and security leaders from EMC, Raytheon and RSA assert that organizations large and small are recognizing they have a responsibility to improve their security posture not just for themselves but also for business and supply chain partners. Security consultants report more organizations are commissioning secu...

This Best Practices Report examines how organizations are leveraging their big data assets, the challenges they face, future trends in user practices and vendor tools, and 10 priorities for the years ahead.   Sponsored By Cloudera, Dell Software, Oracle, Pentaho, SAP, SAS

Big Data , Virtualization , and Cloud Computing offer increased efficiency, agility, and flexibility.  At the same time, the digital landscape is growing increasingly more complex, making the need for a threat-resistant trusted infrastructure more important than ever. As security concerns create challenges for IT from every angle, businesses and organizations need Trusted IT. In the new Big Idea Video Series,  Patricia Florissi narrates a graphically facilitated interpretation of Why Trust Matters, a Security Perspective. 

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Pivotal is committed to being a significant force driving open source innovation and collaboration.  I recently updated a note on   EMC Academic Alliance  FB page related to Pivotal's open source projects and community initiatives.  Do check it via  Post by EMC Academic Alliance .

As we ended Q3 2013, the number looked even more impressive.  1000+ students visited#EMCIndiaCoE.   Here is a quick snapshot of the activities from the past quarter.  Read more on Storify [ View the story "Student Visits to EMC India Center of Excellence ( #EMCIndiaCoE) in Bangalore" on Storify ]

Software-defined storage  transforms existing heterogeneous physical storage into a simple, extensible, and open virtual storage platform that preserves the capabilities of underlying physical storage arrays. It abstracts physical storage, pools aggregated capacity, and automates and centralizes management across heterogeneous storage, including commodity storage, in a scale-out architecture. It includes storage services for provisioning, orchestration, change management, monitoring, reporting, and quality of service, and the ability to do new operations on data in-place via value-add data services. Software-defined storage provides a central point of access to all management functions, translating requests into specific calls to the underlying storage, while offering storage services to multiple users or tenants, with different access roles through a single common portal. This approach standardizes operations, reduces complexities, and improves an organizations effi...

A few months back, i wrote about the availability of Cloud Infrastructure Services certification thru EMC Academic Alliance. Today, i would like to share insights on a few learning aids available for students, when preparing for the exam.  Lets start by answering the question,  Why should i enroll for Cloud Infrastructure and Services (EMCCIS) Exam ? .  A quick note for students : Some of the product details shared may have converged to drive the Software-defined vision, but the foundation to all technologies continue to remain the same. Hence, the videos shared are only to prepare you for the CIS exam and shall only compliment the theory learnt, Breaking the contents to respective modules ------------------------------------------------------------------ Module 1: Journey to the Cloud For Reading   EMC IT's Journey to the Private Cloud: A Practitioner's Guide Videos      Intro to Cloud Computing   --------------...

In the latest  EMC Academic Alliance  TechTalk  introduces  you to Storage area network (SAN) definition,  benefits, and the components, architecture, and protocols of different SAN deployments, namely Fibre Channel (FC) SAN, IP SAN, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) SAN. Watch it via 

As per  National Security Agency ( NSA ),  Defense in Depth is a practical strategy for achieving  Information Assurance in today’s highly  networked environments.  The latest  EMC Academic Alliance TechTalk  introduces you to the Principle of "Defense in Depth" in the context of today's highly networked dynamic environments. It is a primer that would cover basics of key security concepts, terminologies, controls and the various defense mechanisms students ought to know before they get on to their professional carriers and making ways into the Information Security Domain.  Watch it via 

According to a new paper from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI),  a collaborative approach with the commercial sector on Big Data analytics could enable the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to benefit from cutting-edge skills, helping to save money and lives through greater financial efficiency and operational effectiveness. Read more below :  Big Data for Defense and Security