Gartner: Businesses struggling with ID management
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Analyst says multiple types of software, business controls and processes are key to successful identity and access management.
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(Source: Imprivata)  Studies show that nearly 80% of publicized data breaches come from internal sources. This Imprivata webinar explains how a converged physical access and IT security strategy, with Imprivata OneSign", can ensure that you are actively defending your enterprise from insider threat while also addressing regulatory compliance.
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Enterprises face dual 2005 deadlines relating to RFID and supply-chain data synchronization. Those that haven&#39;t moved forward with a product-information-management strategy will be under-prepared to realize RFID&#39;s value.
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The always provocative Brad Templeton, who hung out with a large cadre of geeks at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW, or IIW2007) last week, has some cautions about new identity systems, even if they are all &quot;user-centric&quot;. These cautions lie in a paradox: &quot;The easier it is to give somebody ID information, the more often it will be done. And the easier it is to give ID information, the more palatable it is to ask for, or demand it.&quot; The italics are his.  Here he hits on the problem of market power asymmetries (vendors strong, customers weak) that have been with us for the whole Industrial Age, and are with us still. I think we have a way to overcome those, and that Brad's Paradox may provide exactly the conceptual hurdle we need to see before we can make progress. \
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(Source: Imprivata)  The banking and credit card industry established the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) to provide organizations and IT departments with the tools they need to combat growing security threats. This paper examines the requirements of the new standard and discusses the technology solutions available to help organizations comply with these regulations in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
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InfoWorld - Oracle on Wednesday announced a new project to tackle one of the thorniest problems facing enterprises: the proliferation of sensitive identity information across enterprise networks.
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IT security professionals need to take steps to properly manage how employee-owned consumer devices are used in the workplace, analysts warned at Gartner's IT security summit in London this week.
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A US credit card processing firm has been hit by intermittend and large-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks that have disrupted services.
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This company outsources its data center hosting, so to ride herd on one finicky application, a pilot fish and his team get several admin IDs to manage it remotely. That works well -- for a few months.
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(Source: Patchlink)  According to a recent Gartner research, organizations that implement an effective Vulnerability Management Program will experience a 60 percent reduction in successful external attacks. The purpose of this paper is to outline the process for successfully integrating vulnerability scanning and remediation capabilities to ensure your organization maintains a secure environment while complying with internal and external security policies.
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QUESTION: What is the best approach to protecting me from ID theft and related activities? Will a software package work best, or must I go to a hardware firewall?
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Consumers are bombarded with warnings about identity theft. Publicized threats range from mailbox thieves and lost laptops to the higher-tech methods of e-mail scams and corporate data invasions.
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With the closure of IETF&#39;s MARID group a month ago, many of us have left Microsoft&#39;s Sender-ID standard for the dead. After being rejected by the Apache Foundation and the Debian Project over licensing issues
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Looks to attract companies that can't afford to equip every remote user or branch office but still want some security.
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InfoWorld - Technologies aimed at bolstering enterprise data protection remain tough to manage, but companies can derive significant benefits if they utilize the tools with a pragmatic approach, said security industry experts.
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roundupThere's no question retailers love RFID. But will problems of privacy and unreliability prove to be too great?
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BARCELONA--The director of technology for RSA Security said businesses need to move their online customers toward a federated identity policy or security threats could bring people to lose confidence in trading.