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Change is good, except when it isn’t

The last two years have been a wild and crazy ride for most companies. Mergers, acquisitions, layoffs, unexpected growth, and reorganization – it all comes down to change. They say that change is good and should be embraced, but sometimes change...

Posted to All Things Admin by Erin Avery on Sep 2, 2010

Filed under: user provisioning, Verizon Data Breach Report, Merger and Acquisition, Change
10 AppManager Forum Highlights for a Northern Hemisphere Summer!

...or the Southern Hemisphere's Winter. We have a few members from Australia and New Zealand on this forum so I don't want to leave them out! As many of you know, I live 2 degrees north of the equator and it's a permanent summer for me In...

Posted to AppManager by Haf Saba on Sep 2, 2010

Filed under: appmanager, tips, forum, top posts
12 NetIQ Events in September

September is going to be pretty busy, but lots of opportunities for you to catch up with NetIQ. For more upcoming event listings, check out NetIQ’s events page .: Sept 1, 2010, London, UK : IDC's IT Security Conference 2010 enables end user...

Posted to NetIQ Blog by David Shephard on Aug 30, 2010

Filed under: Aegis, AppManager, Security Manager, Singapore, London, IDC, Durban, Conference, Risk, Insider Threat, Security, Banking, NRG Energy, Financial, GovTech, Gartner, Ira Winkler, SC Magazine, NIST
Information Security – The Game Has Changed, There Are No Rules

I’m one of those people who likes rules. If you lay out the rules then I will, for the most part, follow them. If I’m going to break a rule, I can assess the risk associated with that rule. Unfortunately, when it comes to information security...

Posted to All Things Admin by Erin Avery on Aug 25, 2010

Filed under: Active Directory, Information Security, Identity and Access Management, Deloitte, threat, IAM
Reliance on AntiVirus Software: The Real Failure of PCI DSS

As I discussed in my last post , the Verizon RISK Team 2010 Data Breach Investigations Report ties poor rates of compliance with PCI DSS to data breaches. Specifically, 79% of the organizations that suffered breaches and were subject to PCI DSS were not...

Posted to Security Web by Todd Tucker on Aug 23, 2010

Filed under: PCI DSS, Compliance, File Integrity Monitoring, FIM, Verizon RISK Team, Data Breach Report, AntiVirus, physical compromise, malware, hacking
5 System Management Observations Collected in 2 Circumnavigations

Do excuse my absence as of late. I have circled the world about 2 times since we last spoke, visiting customers, presenting seminars and what I can say with confidence is that there's a lot happening out there these days. I've been making a few...

Posted to AppManager by Haf Saba on Aug 19, 2010

Filed under: Systems Management, Cloud computing, observations, trends
Making Active Directory Decisions: Security Should Have a Seat at the Table

I often say that information security starts with identity management and identity management starts with Active Directory. So it stands to reason that security and Active Directory are inexplicably tied together , bonded for life if you will. While every...

Posted to All Things Admin by Erin Avery on Aug 17, 2010

Filed under: Active Directory, NetIQ, Auditing and Reporting, data breach, Security, Provisioning, computerworld, verizon
User Provisioning – don’t try to boil the ocean

I recently spent a few days with a customer who is leveraging NetIQ’s user provisioning solutions to automate their processes for creating, modifying, disabling, and deleting accounts. While it’s often said that user provisioning can be a...

Posted to All Things Admin by Erin Avery on Aug 11, 2010

Filed under: user provisioning, Security, Automate user provisioning, account creation
Report Ties Abysmal Compliance Stats with Data Breaches...

I finally had the time to read the Verizon RISK Team 2010 Data Breach Investigations Report , which was published a few weeks ago. I had found last year’s report very insightful, as it provides a detailed analysis of their investigations of hundreds...

Posted to Security Web by Todd Tucker on Aug 10, 2010

Filed under: PCI DSS, Credit Card Data, HIPAA, Verizon Breach Report, Database Activity Monitoring, NERC, compromised records, Verizon RISK Team, Data Breach Report, HITECH
VMware wants to be your Cloud Computing Vendor...

Choice is a balancing act; too much and customers may be overwhelmed; too little and customers are locked in to a certain vendor. In terms of security, a single vendor may degrade into what has been cleverly termed a monoculture . As has been pointed...

Posted to Security Web by Garve Hays on Aug 5, 2010

Filed under: Virtualization, Geoff Webb, Cloud Computing, Red Hat, VMware, OpenStack
10 Upcoming NetIQ Events

Time flies and August is upon us, which means it’s time for NetIQ’s guide to our upcoming conferences, webcasts, gatherings and training events where you can catch up with us and learn more about our solutions. For more upcoming event listings...

Posted to NetIQ Blog by David Shephard on Jul 30, 2010

Filed under: IT Process Automation, runbook automation, Aegis, AppManager, Houston, Training, Tampa, LandWarNet, Security Manager, CIO Summit, Staines, Auckland, London, IDC, Rivera Maya, Herndon, Secure Configuration Manager, CIOLA
Critical Data leak may be your next PR nightmare!

Users with unnecessary access to critical data are increasingly becoming organizations’ worst nightmare. Too many privileged users are bad for security – that’s why so many regulations focus on controlling access to critical data . With...

Posted to All Things Admin by Erin Avery on Jul 27, 2010

Filed under: Unauthorized change, Audit, Report, Identity and Access Management, critical data
Secure Open Source Cloud Computing! Does OpenStack Stack Up?

In a previous entry , I mentioned standardization for "cloud" computing. So I was happy to see the New York Times Bits technology blog run an article on the launch of OpenStack from Rackspace . As a customer, I always insist on a published specification...

Posted to Security Web by Garve Hays on Jul 22, 2010

Filed under: Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Google, VMware, Standards, Amazon, OpenStack
Three Considerations for Effective De-Provisioning

Provisioning is a continual hot topic when it comes to Identity and Access Management projects. It is arguably one of the most visible business drivers that IT facilitates – getting people the access they need to do their jobs. However, provisioning...

Posted to All Things Admin by Erin Avery on Jul 14, 2010

Filed under: Security, Audit, Provisioning, De-Provisioning
AppManager Forum Highlights for June

Hi gang! For our US readers, Happy 4th of July! We've been busy getting lots of events going and this month if you're in Singapore, stop by the IDC CIO Summit on the 29th of July as I'll be speaking on some of the latest topics to hit the...

Posted to AppManager by Haf Saba on Jul 6, 2010

Filed under: appmanager, tips, forum, top posts

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