Within these past few years, threats have evolved at a considerable pace. This can be seen from the proliferation of infection methods (from the diskette to web 2.0 and passing through e-mail), to the growing complexity of malicious codes and lastly, to a shift in the intentions of malicious network users. Cybercrime has pushed the [...]

Application Security, the Next Frontier of Compliance Application security is moving to the forefront Enterprises have gone to great lengths to improve information security and document compliance with regulations and industry standards like Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI DSS, HIPAA, FFIEC, FISMA and ISO 2700x. But one critical area is only now coming into focus: application security.

This document is a comprehensive analysis of all the ways that Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions can be run in and integrate with cloud computing systems. Both cloud computing and IAM are relatively new, so the first part of this document defines key concepts and terminology. Next, assumptions that clarify the scope of this [...]

More than 30 million users within businesses, government agencies, schools and other organizations world-wide have switched to Google Apps (adding over 3,000 businesses per day). Unfortunately, those that have compliance requirements may not be able to use all of the applications within Google Apps since it does not have any built-in document compliance or records [...]

When we talk about document security we can have many different ideas as to what security is actually wanted or needed, and what it is there to achieve. In this article we will look at the three principal approaches used today, how they rely upon each other and where they differ. The principal approaches are [...]