Enterprises today have made significant investments in securing their data centers, factories, offices, and other assets against security threats. Their risk assessment methodologies and security precautions are usually designed by a single group of people—internal information security specialists—and aimed at understanding vulnerabilities in a particular environment. Intel has embraced wargaming as an additional type of risk analysis that helps us better understand and defend against malicious attackers from within and without. This white paper from Intel IT provides an overall description of the methodology.

Intel’s Software as a Service (SaaS) manager Chuck Brown explains how Intel is using client virtualization. This short video is presented as a part of the session on client virtualization at the Intel Premier IT Professional best practices seminar.

Intel technology evangelists from the Emerging Technology Engineering team present at the Intel Premier IT Profesional best practices seminars. The group takes a look at technologies on the horizon and analyzes how they may effect IT. This short video provides an overview of the group.

Intel uses a war game process as an essential part of their risk management program. The primary outcome of the war game is to identify areas that need change or improvement in the security infrastructure, and provide both the data and business process support to make those changes happen.

War gaming is typically thought of as a simulation or drill, and can be used in that manner in a corporate setting to validate a security control. In the local Intel Premier IT Professional best practice seminars, Timothy Casey, CISSP, and other Intel IT security experts conduct workshops to train others to use this process. The techniques as well as additional uses are defined in this white paper.

Intel senior security analyst Dennis Morgan presents a short analysis of the benefits of a rich client vs. a thin client.

GE Centricity EDI, part of GE Healthcare IT’s Centricity portfolio, leverages technology to help healthcare providers improve patient care, process claims more efficiently, streamline operations, trim revenue cycles, and improve cash flows. Get the details in the case study.

Intel Canada is sponsoring the Intel-Dell Future of Computing contest for legal residents of Canada. The official contenst rules are available for download.