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At the beginning of the month, I said that throughout June, I would post about identity and access management. Well, we have reached the end of the month and I think some final thoughts are in order.... More >
Password management, I hate it! After 25 years in the business, I still don't have a great way to handle a large amount of passwords. I recently upped he number of personal accounts that I directly m... More >
Last month, I wrote about how the PCI DSS standard does not go far enough . The PCI Data Security Standard is industry developed and policed, which is the proverbial fox guarding the hen house. T... More >
I am asked all the time which anti-virus software I prefer. I tell folks to pick one, it really does not matter. I am serious. AV software is a commodity today, and they all do the job. We can have... More >
Today auditing is a reality, required by every public company. Audits have become so important that they command board-level attention. The advantage of using an identity and access management to... More >
Many companies have to tighten the proverbial security belt these days. However, the needs do not shrink proportionally. Now is not the time to be cutting back on log management, threat management or... More >
In the most recent annual NSA-backed coding contest , the TopCoder Open, only two of the 70 finalists were from the U.S. Dominating the contest were China and Russia, according to ITWorld . The cont... More >
With so many cloud computing providers today, how do we as security professionals know if one provider is any better than another? Unfortunately, there are no cloud computing security standards tha... More >
In recent posts, I mentioned the SAML and WS-Federation standards. Since these are the prevailing industry standards, I think that it's important that we discuss them to gain a firm understanding of ... More >
I recently wrote a post about data center managers saying at the recent Interop conference that they would rather hire candidates that were energetic and passionate and without hard IT skills rathe... More >
Over the past week, we have discussed a few topics in the identity and access management space. Now it's time to talk about some of the players and what their solutions have to offer. Sun Micr... More >
It had to happen sooner or later. In this case, sooner is better. Identity and access management vendors are offering their products as a SaaS solution. Their hope is that they can attract new custom... More >
In an earlier post, I said that June is going to be identity and access management month. I will be making key posts during the month touching on different aspects of the technology. As with... More >
Microsoft has released a security advisory warning that a vulnerability has been found in DirectX . The good news -- we have to take all we can get here -- is that it affects only Windows XP, 2003... More >
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