IBM Endpoint Manager: Reaping the Benefits of a Unified Approach to Security and IT Operations Management [ Source: IBM ]
June 2012- In this report, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) analysts examine how IBM Endpoint Manager's combination of strong endpoint capabilities coupled with the flexibility of a highly adaptable, distributed processing architecture unifies the common objectives of security and IT operations management. Two successful customer use cases demonstrate the efficiency of IBM Endpoint Manager that enables a striking degree of scalability for some of the world's largest, most complex IT environments, while also successfully scaling down to small ...

Establishing a Data-Centric Approach to Encryption [ Source: Voltage Security ]
April 2012- Many data breaches occur at companies that already have a data security policy in place. What is the problem? Typically, intrusion detection and other technologies designed to keep intruders out of your system are built to protect against previously known hacking strategies. This approach exposes your IT systems to great risk as new methods of intrusion are constantly being devised. Learn how to protect corporate data with a data-centric encryption strategy.

Smartphone And Tablet Management: Best Practices Guide [ Source: Fiberlink ]
September 2011- More businesses than ever are confronting how to fully embrace mobile devices beyond their executive and sales teams. In a way, IT teams are being dragged into this. Many users have fully incorporated smartphones and tablets into their daily lives and use corporate-issued and personally-owned iPhones, iPads, and Android devices to access corporate data. They have also adopted application stores in their personal lives, blending activities like web browsing, games, and mobile payments with business ...

Auditing Software Acts Like A Server Security Camera [ Source: ObserveIT ]
January 2010- ObserveIT auditing software acts like a security camera on your servers. It provides bulletproof video evidence of user sessions, significantly shortening investigation time. Every action performed by remote vendors, developers, sysadmins, business users or privileged users is recorded. Video recordings include mouse click, app usage and keystrokes. Each time a security event is unclear, simply replay the video, just as if you were looking over the user’s shoulder.

ObserveIT is the perfect ...

nCircle Solutions for Automating the Consensus Audit Guidelines Critical Security Controls [ Source: nCircle ]
November 2010- Securing our federal infrastructure has become one of our nation’s top cyber security priorities. The Consensus Audit Guidelines (CAG) were created to begin the process of establishing a prioritized baseline of information security measures and controls for the Federal Government. Fifteen of the twenty security controls outlined in CAG can be monitored, at least in part, automatically and continuously.

The rapid rate of change present in an environment constantly under attack makes ...

Secure the Enterprise with Confidence [ Source: IBM ]
May 2013- The explosive increase in cyberthreats poses an increasingly daunting challenge to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of intellectual property and other sensitive information. Conflicting opinions about operational risk, myriad point solutions for security technology, and dissimilar computing infrastructures create a puzzling landscape for security and risk professionals. To assess the market, Forrester Consulting interviewed 225 IT security leaders across North America and Western Europe about their firm?s information security investments. Roughly 60% of respondents reported revenues ...

Mobile Device Management for Financial Services [ Source: Fiberlink ]
May 2013- Financial Mobility-Balancing Security and Success

Financial services companies have been leery to embrace the enterprise mobility wave. Rightly so, regulations from Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) have given financial IT professionals extra concern for caution.  From BYOD to Corporate-Owned, Every Mobile Device Protected

The good news is that with Mobile Device Management (MDM) iPhones, iPads and the ...

Five Steps to Achieve Success in your Application Security Program [ Source: IBM ]
May 2013- This white paper provides a general framework your organization can use to create or build upon an application security program. It includes guidelines that can be useful at different stages of your security program's maturity. By addressing key considerations, providing clear and actionable items, and offering real-world examples, these five steps provide an adaptable strategy to help your organization get started and maintain an effective, ongoing application-security strategy.

Intelligent Role Management For Improved Security and Compliance [ Source: IBM ]
May 2013- In complex organizations with sprawling role structures, managing user access and entitlements can be overwhelming. As part of an effective strategy for identity and access management governance, role management is a powerful method with which to strengthen and streamline the management process. Although role management solutions may help, many are overly complex and are not suited for business users. To find out how the integrated Role and Policy Modeler component of IBM Security Identity Manager ...

The Evolving Landscape of Desktop Security [ Source: McAfee ]
May 2013- Over the last 20 years, as we have moved towards a knowledge-based economy, the security challenges of maintaining the fidelity of the IT infrastructure have grown dramatically. There has been a massive increase in the number of malware samples encountered by security researchers around the world, from thousands of malware samples in a year to thousands of malware samples per day. On an operational level, endpoint security (desktop/laptops) has grown more complex, and IT security ...