Identity Control: Realizing the Benefits of Roles Standardization & Cleanup [ Source: Watson SCS ]
January 2008- In a world of big solutions for big compliance and efficiency headaches, Identity Control is a welcome relief. It is the authors’ contention that ""cleaning up"" existing identity related processes & role related information will greatly help with productivity, compliance, and normal reconciliation procedures of every organization. Many organizations have tried to tackle role projects, only leading to failed attempts, costing time and money. The attitude is amalgam leveraging both a top down and bottom ....

An Executive Guide to Corporate Defence Management (CDM) [ Source: R.I.S.C. International ]
January 2008- This whitepaper on the emerging discipline of Corporate Defence Management (CDM) is the first of its kind dealing with this subject. The whitepaper represents the 3rd installment in a series of papers designed to raise awareness of the requirement for corporate defence to play a more eminent role in corporate strategy. This paper is designed to act as a helpful guide to executives interested in the area of contemporary corporate defence and in particular in ....

Prevention, Detection, and Investigation: A Practical Approach for Activating Continuous Compliance [ Source: BMC Software ]
January 2008- Businesses are achieving the state of continuous compliance by integrating audit and control activities into business processes. Compliance is ultimately about assigning responsibility - all the way down to an individual person. As a result, identity management is the most logical place to start for many organizations This BMC Software paper describes a practical approach for activating continuous compliance based on best practices of prevention, detection, and investigation, enabled by effective identity management.

Automated Event Log Management for PCI DSS Compliance [ Source: GFI Software ]
January 2008- Hardware and software components on corporate networks generate a wealth of network activity information in the form of event log records. Utilizing and making sense of these records is however a slow and tedious process; one which often leads systems administrators to give up on using event logs as their primary source for network-wide security information. This white paper published by GFI Software highlights why organizations need to implement event log auditing as an integral ....

Ten Ways Hackers Breach Security [ Source: Global Knowledge ]
February 2007- Hacking, cracking, and cyber crimes are hot topics these days and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. However, there are steps you can take to reduce your organization's threat level. The first step is to understand what risks, threats, and vulnerabilities currently exist in your environment. The second step is to learn as much as possible about the problems so you can formulate a solid response. The third step is to intelligently deploy ....