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Assuring User Identities During a Business Disruption: Applying a Consistent Strong Authentication Policy to Business Continuity Planning

This white paper examines the importance of maintaining a consistent two-factor authentication policy during a business disruption. In addition, it provides insight into how to develop plans that enable cost-effective, rapid binding of users to their credentials in the event of an emergency - without lowering the security policy, opening...

Tags: RSA Security Inc., Two-factor Authentication, Business Continuity Planning, User Identity, Business Continuity, Authentication, Security Administration, Business Security, Security, Business Operations

White papers 2009-08-01

Croatian Banks Make Fraud Virtually Impossible by Securing Transactions and User Identities With Thales nCipher HSMs

A member of the Asseco Group, which is Europe's fifth largest system integrator, Logos is one of Croatia's most trusted IT companies. Logos has built numerous online banking systems for clients including leading Croatian banks Zagrebacka Banka member of UniCredit Group, PBZ member of Intesa Sanpaolo Group, and Raiffeisenbank Austria....

Tags: User Identity, Online Banking, Hardware, Fraud, MasterCard International, THALES, Hardware Security Module, Banking, Litigation, E-business/E-Commerce, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Business Operations, Internet

Case studies 2009-01-22

Google to protect user identities, but not employees'

Google to protect user identities, but not employees'viacom may want to reign their lawyers inThere is a high potential for Viacom to piss off its customers. Sooner or later one of these DCMA/Copyright lawsuits will go too far and cause a decline in business for the rights holder that...

Tags: Corporate communications, Viacom Inc., user identity, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Google to protect user identities, but not employees'

Viacom and Google came to an agreement over what data Google will be handing over after a judge's ruling last week. Orignally, it was believed that Google would be forced to hand over personally identifiable information about the viewing habits of all YouTube users. Thankfully, the two companies...

Tags: Google Inc., User Identity, Agreement, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Balearic Islands Health Service (IB Salut) Unifies and Centralizes Administration of Identity Management

Balearic Islands Health Service wanted to simplify the authentication of users registered in various information systems and reduce the number of user credentials needed to access computer applications to five. The challenge was to unify and centralize user management to facilitate movement of patients between hospitals and health centers and...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Health Service, Administration, User Identity, Health Care, Identity Management, Authentication/Encryption, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Case studies 2008-07-01

Integrating Two-Factor Authentication With Network Access Control: Tying User Identities to Access Control Policies

To protect enterprise network resources and secure access to network applications and information, organizations need to ensure that users accessing the network are indeed who they claim to be. The use of two-factor authentication to assure the identities of users gaining network access is essential for secure operations. The Identity...

Tags: RSA Security Inc., Network, Two-factor Authentication, User Identity, Access Control, Security Administration, Networking, Security

White papers 2008-03-01

Integrating Two-Factor Authentication With Network Access Control White Paper: Tying User Identities to Access Control Policies

To protect enterprise network resources and secure access to network applications and information, organizations need to ensure that users accessing the network are indeed who they claim to be. The use of two-factor authentication to assure the identities of users gaining network access is essential for secure operations. The Identity...

Tags: RSA Security Inc., Network, Two-factor Authentication, User Identity, Access Control, Security Administration, Networking, Security

White papers 2008-03-01

Microsoft Password Change Notification Service 3.1.1057 (Windows)

The Microsoft Password Change Notification Service enables synchronization of password changes in Active Directory to Microsoft Identity Integration Server Service Pack 1 MIIS or the Microsoft Enterprise Single Sign-On ENTSSO service. These components simplify password management in organizations with multiple user identity repositories. This version is the first release on...

Tags: User Identity, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Password Change, Microsoft Password Change Notification Service

Software downloads 2007-08-31

Global Financial Services Firm Centrally Manages User Identities With Identity and Access Management Solution From RSA, the Security Division of EMC

Raymond James, one of the world's largest global financial services firms with more than 2,100 offices worldwide, provides its customers with online access to account information, financial data and a variety of other web resources. The company needed a web access management solution to centrally manage user identities, authentication policies...

Tags: Web, RSA Security Inc., Financial, Financial Service, Access Management, User Identity, Web Access Management, EMC Corp., Identity, Security Administration, Security

Case studies 2007-08-01

Security 2.0 and the Challenge of Managing User Identities

Organizations that deliver a secure experience to end users - regardless of whether they're partners, suppliers, or customers - will not only reduce their risks but also create a competitive advantage for their companies. With more secure identities and transactions, businesses will be better able to retain customers and reduce...

Tags: Risk, Symantec Corp., User Identity, Security, Strategy, Management

White papers 2007-05-08

User Identity Propagation in Web Service Implementation

Implementation of Web services requires multiple levels of security, including communications security, secure access to the Web service endpoint, and identity propagation between service consumer and implementation. In this paper, one focuses on user identity propagation. One also learns about the role of identity propagation in the overall Web services...

Tags: Web, Propagation, Web Service, User Identity, Identity Propagation, Channel Management, Web Services, Cloud Computing, Security, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-11-14

Research Lab Speech Engines Suite 2005 1.2 (Windows)

Research Lab Speech Engines 2005 Suite includes four powerful speech engines: 1. Speaker Verification Engine SDK. Useful in secure military grade user identity verification. 2. Speech Recognition Engine SDK . Recognizes isolated, language independent words. 3. VoiceInsert SAPI Speech Recognition SDK . This is a 2.00.000 words vocabulary for English...

Tags: United Research Labs, User Identity, Microsoft Windows, Speech Recognition, Emerging Technologies

Software downloads 2005-02-02

Gain Control of User Identities with Oracle Identity Management

Password management is expensive, especially in companies that have large, heterogeneous networks. In fact, the time that administrators spend dealing with password-related problems can easily cost hundreds of dollars per user per year. But you can dramatically reduce or even eliminate your organization's password management costs while building a more...

Tags: Password Management, Password, Oracle Corp., User Identity, Identity Management, Authentication/Encryption, Security

Presentations

Large Manufacturing Company Simplifies User Identities With Active Directory Application Mode

A large U.S. manufacturing company with global operations and many different applications and systems needed to find a new, more efficient way of managing user identities. In particular, the company wanted to streamline logon procedures for users while reducing IT help-desk tasks. The company adopted the Microsoft Active Directory Application...

Tags: Manufacturing Company, User Identity, Microsoft Corp., Help Desk, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Call Centers, Directory Services, Manufacturing, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies

TechNet Webcast: Deployment and Configuration of Active Directory Federation Services (Level 300)

This webcast introduces the viewer to Active Directory Federation Services ADFS, a component in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 that enables to share user identity information securely by addressing common challenges. The presenter shows how ADFS provides identity federation technologies to authenticate a user to multiple Web applications over the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Webcast, Identity Federation, User Identity, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Servers, Hardware

Webcasts

Novell Case Study: Graubundner Kantonalbank

The Graubundner KantonalBank GKB is one of the largest regional banks in Switzerland with revenues of approximately $9 billion each year. Decentralized administration made it difficult to grant both employees and customer's proper rights to access information, resulting in increased administrative costs and security risks. The bank needed an enterprise-wide...

Tags: Novell Inc., User Identity

Case studies

Additional Resources

Michael Dell sticks to Windows 7 big bang theory

too old?"Windows XP is 8 years old"So What? If it ain't broke don't fix it!Windows 2000 is ten years old and still does almost everything I need. Everyone around me runs XP or newer, yet I have far fewer problems.What is good for the computer industry is not...

Tags: Operating systems, theory, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Google's Chrome OS: Will you give up desktop apps?

I won't ntntI can'tI'm not online 24/7. I need local apps, as does everyone else. Say what you want. But network outages happen... Weather by forces of nature or human error, a network will eventually go down. It's only a matter of time. And knowing Google's past GMail outages, I...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Desktops, operating system, desktop, Google Inc., desktop app, netbook, Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Salesforce Chatter: Social operating systems emerge on the IT stage

The next big shift: Intranets, portals, and software suites that are the integrating force of the social fabric for our organizations. This morning's announcement here at Dreamforce today from Salesforce of Chatter, an enterprise-class realization of Facebook and Twitter, is further evidence of the industry's push for social Web capabilities...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Information Technology, Operating System, Environment, Social Computing, Chatter, Status Update, Groups, Sales Force Management, Social Networking, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Microsoft Patents Sudo - So Sudo me!

i do think that it time for some rule and regulation .and some major MS legal bashing . anti-trust Adrian this is shameless self promotionYou would not even have this if a reader had not given it to you. Means nothing but what youre getting out of it, HITS....

Tags: Idiocy, patent, Microsoft Corp., Adrian

Discussion threads 2009-11-12