Access and ID Management
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It is diffcult to ignore the vast importance of IPS technology in nearly every enterprise IT security strategy. In most cases, IPS technology is the cornerstone for protecting governments, enterprises, and Small-to-Medium Businesses (SMBs) against threats to IT applications and infrastructure. The signifcance of IPS in all of these arenas truly cannot be overstated.
This report examines the issue of data governance through the publication of new primary research that examines how well European businesses understand the risks and what steps they have taken to address them. The report should be of interest to those involved in ensuring the safety and integrity of information or those who manage business processes and operations that rely on it.
IT security is traditionally built on three pillars: Security, Integrity and Availability. Most IT security professionals would normally focus on these issues in the order listed above. It is, however, imperative that the methods used to secure systems do not have a negative impact on data availability.
It is, sadly, often the case that the greatest IT security threats to your business are not to be found on the outside but among legitimate service users. Sloppy security practices (e.g. the setting of very weak passwords) among employees can expose companies to significant levels of risk. This article gives an excellent overview of how insider risk can be minimized through the implementation of an Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution.
Reducing the risk of insider attack, data loss, and unmanaged changeCompanies face significant challenges in controlling change in their Active Directory environments. This white paper describes the need for more effective Active Directory monitoring as part of a broader change-control process, the problems with current approaches, and how to leverage NetIQ products to assure policy compliance and operational integrity.
As Active Directory's role in the enterprise has drastically increased, so has the need to secure the data it stores and to which it enables access. The lack of native control makes the secure administration of Active Directory a challenging task at best for administrators. As a result, organizations need assistance in creating repeatable, enforceable processes that will ultimately reduce their administrative overhead, while simultaneously helping increase availability and security of their systems. This white paper outlines seven common challenges associated with securely administering Active Directory and provides some helpful insight into what NetIQ can do to assist you with these difficulties.
Identity is one of the critical areas of IT security. Companies must be able to verify who a user is and what rights and privileges he/she should enjoy on a system. This fact underlines the extreme importance of finding a workable and sustainable authentication management solution, especially as whole systems are moving onto the cloud. This article is presented as a thorough overview of some of the current issues and solutions in the field of identity management.
Credit card fraud is on the rise in Australia As Australia increasingly moves toward a cashless society, it is unsurprising to learn that payments using alternatives to cash are on the increase. In 2008, about 1.87 billion credit/charge card transactions were made on Australian-issued payment cards. This was a six per cent increase on the 1.75 billion transactions in 2007.
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