Monday, 21 May 2012
In businesses today, a growing number of users require access to a growing range of IT resources. Concurrently, firms are exercising tighter control over access to these resources to minimize information leaks. These conflicting requirements have made identity and access management (IAM) more important than ever.
Operating systems include a native “superuser” account that gives a user unlimited privileges on a given server. This is a potentially risky because administrators essentially get unregulated access to files. Virtualization aggravates the problem. IT organizations need to enforce appropriate access and provide accountability through auditing to minimize this risk.
As virtualization’s ability to optimize resource pushes its adoption throughout data centers and critical infrastructure, firms must start reality checks on their virtual security. Network mangers must move to centrally manage role-based identity and access, control machine-to-machine access, and monitor all activities on the host operating system and guest VMs.
Australian Unity needed to address its business and security risks that could affect business reputation and growth. This included user management, application management and application security management.
Get more information about PKI and digital certificates, such as how to implement PKI, how to ensure security and available implementation. Also learn about digital certificates, signatures and achieving authentication through a certificate authority (CA).
A CA global survey finds that, while SOA and Web services offer organizations innovative ways to meet the IT application and integration needs of employees, customers and partners, they also introduce significant security challenges.
Australian Unity chose an enterprise single sign-on solution from CA as it consolidates application access into a single login while providing a superior level of application security.
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a core element of any sound security program. But IAM is also a challenge to implement because it touches virtually every end user, numerous business processes as well as every IT application and infrastructure component.
This paper introduces the Identity Metasystem, and how it is used with Microsoft Windows CardSpace and CA SiteMinder ICAS to facilitate secure, consent-driven, privacy-enhanced authentication, authorization and federation.
This white paper provides a general overview of the security challenges related to doing business on the Web and provides a definition of Web access management and how this category of software helps to address these challenges.
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Less secure than you think 
This white paper examines the changing threat landscape, how the nature of security threats has evolved, and the potential financial impact across vertical markets and organizations of all sizes. This paper will explain why advanced targeted attacks have been extremely effective at breaking through traditional network security and enabling the massive data breaches and intellectual property thefts that are keeping CISOs awake at night.
Trusted Mobility Index
The mobile ecosystem of devices, services and networks is at a critical inflection point.While the mobile revolution is unleashing massive opportunities in both emerging and mature economies, it is also increasing in complexity and confusion. The reality is the lightning-fast adoption of powerful, smart devices is outpacing society’s ability to secure them. Today, trust in mobility hangs in the balance.
MasterCard tackles BYOD with strict conditions
More than a year into its bring-your-own-device program, MasterCard Worldwide continuously assesses the security technology and policies that allow 30 percent of its employees worldwide to use their personal iPhones, iPads and Android devices at work.
HID Global deploys a centralized, web-based IP access control solution at Fuxi Power Plant
Unable to meet the needs for real-time monitoring with its traditional patrol system, China's Fuxi Power Plant has deployed HID Global's VertX V2000.
