High Availability

SCADA-driven systems are found in all components of Critical National Infrastructure including energy power plants, electricity supply grids, chemical plants and other industrial systems. Where years ago these systems were connected via dial-up modem – with password security that at the time was highly resistant to attack – the current trend is to plug these devices into the Internet using a standard Ethernet connection – or worse yet, by WIFI or some other wireless protocol that lacks the encryption and authentication needed to prevent tampering. Thousands of SCADA-based systems accessible from the Internet have weak default privileged passwords “defending” them. Download this whitepaper to learn how to secure SCADA systems from cyber attacks.

Big Data techniques are seen as increasingly valuable by organizations seeking to maximize their security intelligence. Discover how RSA can help you analyze big data, protect your company, and save your organization time, money and its reputation.

PowerBroker Databases provides a core database log reading technology which provides a level of visibility into changes to data assets. Capabilities include credential discovery, management, fine-grained privilege delegation, privileged user activity monitoring, closed loop activity reconciliation, and automated compliance reporting.

PowerBroker Password Safe is an enterprise password management solution for access control, manageability and audit of all types of privileged accounts, such as shared administrative accounts, application accounts, and local administrative accounts.

PowerBroker Auditor for File System is a real-time auditing, interactive analysis, alert¬ing, and compliance reporting solution for File System. Providing the monitoring, auditing and reporting required to mitigate the risks associated with delegated administration in regulated settings.

PowerBroker Change Manager for Active Directory is a workflow-based data governance solution that automates policy enforcement for Active Directory and network resources. This allows data owners to control access and make changes to their data resources without disruption the network.

PowerBroker Privilege Explorer for Active Directory and File Systems is a privilege management solution that offers a centralized view and management of enterprise wide Active Directory access. Administrators see access points to resources and exposure of intellectual property.

As cloud services, SaaS applications, and the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend become more and more common in the workplace, organizations are struggling to keep IT in control of the enterprise. Consult this comprehensive white paper to discover the security and integration challenges that often accompany SaaS adoption and learn how you can prepare to meet the new demands of the mobile enterprise by deploying a cloud-based SSO solution. Click through now to get started.

Discover how to accelerate database performance, handle change and growth in scalable, incremental steps, and deliver mission-critical data availability and protection with this unique commercial solution.

This paper focuses on configuring Oracle GoldenGate to run on Oracle Exadata. The Oracle Exadata Database Machine can act as the source database, as the target database, or in some cases as both source and target databases for GoldenGate processing.

What are some of the pitfalls you can avoid when augmenting an existing infrastructure to maximize performance, results, and success? Read on.

Security breaches are expensive. An IT organization that better understands the risks associated with all layers of security is more certain that its threat assessment is accurate and that its defenses against data breaches are appropriate. HP delivers on the vision of full context and intelligence for monitoring and managing security risk in applications, operations, and even business process.

The multitude of devices, users, and generated traffic all combine to create a proliferation of data that is being created with incredible volume, velocity, and variety. As a result, organizations need a way to protect, utilize, and gain real-time insight from “big data.” So, how do you get started?

By building in comprehensive security measures at the design and architectural phase of NGDC build outs, organizations can preemptively optimize business-critical service availability by minimizing potential downtime through greater resiliency. Forward-thinking enterprises that take this route are in a much better position to deploy new on-demand business services more quickly and safely while maintaining efficiencies.

The evidence is clear: traditional security methods are insufficient for dealing with the complexity of today’s threats, so a new way of thinking about security is needed to fully protect against the ever-evolving threat landscape.

Application whitelisting used in conjunction with existing antivirus solutions provides a strong defense against emerging threats like APT and targeted malware, and also contributes to reduced operational costs by controlling the sprawl of unauthorized applications.

Many organizations still rely on security solutions with inherent limitations. Given the complexities of today’s database platforms and the sophistication of today’s cybercriminals, deploying a comprehensive and dedicated database security solution is a must. Here are five reasons why.

IBM commissioned Tolly to evaluate their protocol-based IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System GX7800 and compare its efficacy to that of a Snort-based device, a signature-based platform.

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 is designed to address these issues, download the IBM white paper, “Intelligent role management for improved security and compliance ,” today.

In today’s interconnected business environment, no system is immune to threats, including mainframe environments. To help manage this challenge IBM delivers integrated threat analysis, real-time alerts, audit consolidation and compliance reporting to help you keep pace with today’s increasing threats with a single view into the risks affecting both mainframe and distributed systems. Covering people, data, applications and infrastructure, the IBM security intelligence program includes the automated analysis and report-ing capabilities you need to deal with the complexity of event monitoring and reporting without burying your staff with an endless stream of log data that does not record threats. And while the mainframe itself can save up to 70 percent in audit overhead,1 security intelligence can increase the depth of insight and real-time anomaly detection, improving the integrity of sys-tems and protecting your mission-critical workloads.

IBM Security and IBM Information Management solutions for security work with the IBM System z platform to allow the mainframe to serve as an enterprise security hub, providing comprehensive, centralized security capabilities for organizations with distributed, multiplatform IT environments.

Powered by back-end databases, Web 2.0 and SOA for Web services, the dynamic nature of Web applications creates new challenges for security and compliance. The widespread growth of Web applications and the business value they deliver attracts hackers and cyber criminals to target Web-based applications to steal data, disrupt operations, and infect clients. Most enterprises try to address web application security by either 1.) finding and fixing the vulnerabilities or 2.) blocking attacks against those vulnerabilities. However, best practices combine the two approaches to identify and correct vulnerabilities in the software development life cycle while still protecting production applications with security measures specific to their vulnerabilities

To have a chance at early detection of a targeted attack, organizations need "smart eyeballs" on context-enriched activity reports. Access this report to learn why monitoring for targeted attack detection is more effective when real-time monitoring is

This whitepaper from Lieberman Software outlines the security risks that can arise when IT staff change job roles. It describes in detail how organizations can secure their privileged identities, and presents a study how a government agency mitigated the threats that arose during times of IT staff turnover.

An optimized WAN environment can increase network reliability and availability and improve cost profiles. It also improves the performance and reliability of data backup, replication, and recovery processes.