Whether you’re delivering new services and applications, switching current offerings across new segments of customers and employees, or dealing with mergers and acquisitions, new demands are constant in an ever-changing business environment. But our current systems of customized and inflexible identity sources, each with its own representation of identities, make it difficult to securely deliver [...]

Evolving an enterprise portal and keeping it secure is a thorny issue for most companies. When first deployed, most corporate portals work smoothly and securely, just as they were designed; but changes are inevitable—and managing these changes can be highly complex and extremely expensive. These issues are not a result of the tools used to [...]

Delivering smarter security and more customized services are at the top of any IT agenda. But while these goals may appear quite different from a business and technical perspective, they share a lot under the surface. In fact, both would be easier—and cheaper—to achieve with a common infrastructure—what we call an identity and context service. [...]

Software flaws that compromise the security of the system are often referred to as vulnerabilities. As the complexity and source code for modern operating systems has grown dramatically so has the number of vulnerabilities in the OS. The CERT Coordination Centre estimates that software vulnerabilities have grown in number from 171 in 1995 to 8,064 [...]

Each time you login to your organization’s network you’re required to enter a password to help keep the network secure from outsiders. Most networks also require you to follow basic rules when choosing your password to ensure that it cannot be easily compromised.

Cloud computing presents great opportunities for businesses and organizations to control costs and better align IT assets with business goals by using modern on-demand computing resources. Choosing an appropriate Cloud computing Service can be a complex decision. Providers of Cloud services can reduce barriers to adoption by demonstrating their capability to properly secure their clients’ [...]

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 [...]

This paper is written for OEMs that market networking, telecom, and network security solutions to Information Technology (IT) departments in companies of all sizes and industries. For our purposes here, OEMs are organizations that combine hardware computing platforms and software applications into solution-level products. WIN Enterprises networking platforms are typically used to support networking, network [...]

There are a number of advantages when end users do not have local administrative rights on their Windows desktops. These include: – Less chance for malware to successfully attack the system. – Reduce chance for the end user to make unauthorized changes to the system. – Better control on which applications are installed and used [...]

IT professionals that support Windows desktops are well aware of “Patch Tuesday”. This is the day every month when Microsoft releases their patch updates for the Microsoft products. Month after month there are new vulnerabilities that are reported to Microsoft and Microsoft releases the updates that address the vulnerabilities on a regular monthly cadence. As [...]