Access Control

Organizations across the globe continue to experience compromised data caused by malicious attacks, web application vulnerabilities or unauthorized changes. These organizations are also challenged to remain in compliance by the proliferation of diverse databases and platforms distributed across the enterprise -including cloud, commercial, OLTP and batch environments. IBM® InfoSphere® solutions for data security and privacy are designed to support a holistic approach, helping organizations protect its data against a complex threat landscape while remaining focused on business goals. Because the InfoSphere solutions are scalable and modular, organizations can focus on their most critical data protection concerns first, and then adopt other solutions over time. InfoSphere solutions for data security and privacy help your organization to: understand where the data exists; safeguard sensitive data, both structured and unstructured; protect production and non-production environments; secure and continuously monitor access to data; and demonstrate compliance to pass audits. View this demo and learn how IBM InfoSphere Guardium® database activity monitoring can help protect your sensitive data in distributed DBMS environments with a holistic approach to data security and compliance.

Data security presents a multi-dimensional challenge in today's complex IT environment. Multiple access paths and permission levels have resulted in a broad array of security threats and vulnerabilities. Traditional "fortress approaches" such as firewalls and IDS/IPS systems are no longer sufficient to defend against attackers who can easily bypass perimeter defenses. These security measures can't differentiate or prevent unauthorized traffic that appears to be legitimate. We invite you to read this new eBook: "Protecting against database attacks and insider threats" to learn the top five scenarios and essential best practices for preventing database attacks and insider threats.

The Enterprise Strategy Group has been actively following the information security market since 2003. During this timeframe, ESG has undertaken numerous surveys involving thousands of enterprise security professionals and conducted hundreds of interviews with CISOs and other senior security executives. Over the past few years, ESG has noticed change in the information security air. Since enterprises face a much more dangerous threat landscape, they are actively evolving historical tactical security defenses into a more formal information security management framework. Based upon this evolutionary trend, ESG developed a 4-phased security management maturity model.

As organizations utilize the Internet for almost every aspect of their business operations, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack can put the entire enterprise at risk. Explore DDoS trends that took place in 2011 and learn what to expect in 2012.

The search for a viable replacement to Cisco's CSA has resulted in frustration for many CSA customers, either taking a backseat to other projects or wasting precious time and resources looking at inadequate solutions. Matrix gets it. Time and again we've seen existing CSA customers seeking the same levels of protection and control provided to them by CSA for years that they have been happy with and depended on. If you have just started your CSA replacement search or if you are frustrated after looking at and rejecting many products that claim that they can replace CSA and feel like giving up and accepting a poor replacement option you have found the right resource to help you. This white paper is intended as a roadmap for CSA users to identify the key features of CSA that they must have in a replacement security product and the best available options including StormShield the new leader in endpoint behavioral protection.

This white paper, from cloud computing strategist Steve Staso, describes one key area of Cloud security - the management of privileged accounts. Learn about proven, automated, and scalable solutions available today for public Cloud providers, as well as private Cloud architects.

Download this technical overview for a common-sense guide to automate your privileged identity security. You'll learn the fundamentals of what makes a good Privileged Identity Management solution, the steps you can take for a successful deployment, and ways to take advantage of your new software to maximize the return.

NBC News. Steve Wozniak. Sarah Palin-all victims of social media hacks. It goes without saying that the ubiquity of social media apps is creating concern amongst enterprise infosec organizations with respect to the measure they take to manage use of the applications across their workforces. Join Tyler Shields as he explores how enterprises can mitigate the security concerns that stem from these social media applications. Mr. Shields will also explore the motivations for these hacks-- Defamation of brand? Or a Trojan horse for IT and Infosec professionals-distracting them from the real breaches and threats to ensue?

Learn about the HIPAA/HITECH regulations affecting electronic protected health information (ePHI) and how to meet regulatory compliance through encryption of data at rest and encryption key management across the heterogeneous enterprise. Strong encryption, policy-based access controls, and secure key management provide a separation of duties and ensure consistency across both structured and unstructured data.

Data security and compliance issues need to be addressed to ensure sensitive data is safe in the cloud. Discover the cloud security challenges posed by Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environments and explore how encryption, policies, separation of duties and key management successfully protect data at rest.

Which encryption technology is right for your enterprise? Discover the strengths and limitations of encryption approaches to protect data at rest, which data types to secure, whether to encrypt structured database data and unstructured information, audit and compliance requirements, how to manage policies and keys and minimize operating costs.

Ad hoc encryption is no longer adequate - leading to higher costs and increased risk. So, what's needed? An enterprise encryption and key management strategy that can extend across all sensitive data, in all formats, across the entire organization. Read this industry analyst report from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) to understand the issues as you evaluate your encryption strategy.

Enterprise key management is a critical issue for IT organizations that is compounded by the proliferation of encryption keys from discrete encryption point solutions and transparent database encryption (TDE) technologies. Learn how to control encryption keys and policies on an enterprise scale while reducing administration costs and security risks.

2011 was arguably the most surprising year in IT security history, with groundbreaking breaches at many of the world's top organizations. In this webinar we will analyze the threats and trends of 2011 while offering guidance for dealing with the evolving security landscape of the future. Key topics will include: · Significant discoveries and events from 2011 and lessons to take away · Detailed threat analysis by threat type, delivery, region, and more · Statistical roll-up of top spam topics by category and email type · Data theft and loss events and how containment defenses continue to evolve

A key technical underpinning of the Cloud is the Application Programming Interface (API). APIs provide consistent methods for outside entities such as web services clients and desktop applications to interface with services in the Cloud. More and more, it will be through APIs that cloud data moves; however, the security and scalability of APIs are currently threatened by a problem called the password anti-pattern - the need for one API to collect and replay the password for a user at another API in order to access information on behalf of that user. OAuth defeats the password anti-pattern, creating a consistent, flexible identity and policy architecture for web applications, web services, devices, and desktop clients attempting tocommunicate with Cloud APIs.

Today's enterprise employees use an ever-increasing number of applications, both enterprise hosted and in the Cloud, to do their jobs. What's more, they will access those applications from a variety of devices (desktops, laptops, tablets, phones, etc) and application models (both browser and native). Expecting those employees to remember strong and unique passwords for each and every application simply does not scale. Providing employees seamless, secure "single sign-on" access to their applications has become business critical.

The responsibilities of network administrators and security managers at today's mid-size companies can seem like a no-win situation. This white paper explores how your mid-sized company can have a Fortune 500 type security solution on a budget you can afford.

Our research shows that pinpoint attacks that manipulate human fallibility coupled with careless use of social media are now devastatingly effective. Mobility and cloud computing trends aggravate the situation by placing data in circumstances that are poorly protected by most organizations. Find out more Readers of this report will also be able to appreciate how hackers use six stages in an advance attack to achieve their goal of data theft. Packed with real-world examples of effective exploits, this report will help you explain to your management team how organizations should respond to secure their business. Read the report for in-depth information on: - The anatomy of an advance attack. - How the dynamic web is changing the nature of security. - Where you are most likely to discover malware. - Real-world incidents that make the security tangible.

The business trend towards IT "consumerization" is being driven by cost savings and employee pressure to allow the use of employee-owned mobile devices to access corporate email and attachments. Businesses are scrambling to support greater mobility, but are justifiably concerned about the potential for consumerization to put sensitive data at greater risk. A new type of mobile data protection model is needed to overlay and augment emerging mobile device management (MDM) solutions to ensure sensitive corporate data remains secure and contained on an employee's personal device, without comingling with their private data. In this datasheet you'll learn how Digital Guardian's Enterprise Information Protection (EIP) technology platform extends its data-centric security model for hosts and virtual environments to include monitoring and controlling the movement of sensitive information to employee-owned devices through the Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) and Exchange ActiveSync (EAS).

Preventing data misuse by trusted users is the hardest information protection challenge to solve. More than ever, the growing need for "anytime, anywhere" data collaboration to support business strategy creates new opportunities for privileged insiders to compromise classified information. Traditional IT security measures which simply control unauthorized network or application access are ineffective, as insiders already have full authorization to the data. A data-centric security approach is required to defend against the Insider Threat. In this datasheet, you'll learn about proven strategies and technologies to detect, deter, and prevent insider threats to sensitive data.

Today's most dangerous cyber threats to businesses are known as Advanced Persistent Threats (APT). Custom-built to target and steal a specific company's sensitive data, APT are almost always invisible to traditional network security technologies. Understanding how your organization can efficiently defend against APT through effective strategies and proven counter technologies is a critical component for companies in highly-competitive global markets. This data sheet will provide a brief overview of how to successful manage APT.

Many organizations lack a well-implemented classification program designed to identify, monitor, and apply effective controls to their sensitive information. Whereas some companies may have defined basic classification schemas on paper to organize their data, they lack the technical and business support to enforce data classification programs. Organizational obstacles, combined with the technical challenges of accurately identifying data make enterprise classification initiatives a non-starter for most organizations. In this white paper you will learn how to build a phased data classification program that maximizes the security and productivity of data as an enterprise asset that can be organized and utilized to support business objectives.

The executive leadership of a multi-billion dollar business faced an existential problem. They could not fundamentally measure or characterize the risks to their intellectual property, particularly as it was used within highly-collaborative business processes. When a privileged user was caught by pure chance while attempting to compromise trade secrets, they created a program to identify and manage their information risks without impacting productivity. Download this case study to see a real-world example of how Digital Guardian enables the productive enforcement of policy for an IP-driven business.

VDI and VM solutions are valued for their cost effectiveness and flexibility, but can create new information risks because infrastructure-dependent security solutions - like DLP, access control, or network security appliances - are unable to identify, monitor, or enforce identity-based data usage policies within virtual environments. In this datasheet learn how Verdasys Digital Guardian enables businesses to maximize the competitive advantage of virtual environments without sacrificing their ability to protect sensitive data.

Unstructured data can be found anywhere and in any form within an organization, making it one of the most difficult information security risks to manage. In this whitepaper, learn about how Digital Guardian's proven, data-centric approach provides accurate identification and effective lifecycle management of any unstructured data type by combining automated and manual classification methods with risk-based policy enforcement.