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CoIT part 2: Security of Mobile Users - Does it Differ from Security for non-Mobile?

A few months ago, I posted a blog on Consumerization of IT ( here ) where I explored some of the causes and impacts of this important trend (wow....has it really been that long since I last blogged? What have you been doing all this time, Sumner?). I mentioned in that blog that there would be a follow...

Posted to CA on Security Management (Weblog) by Sumner Blount on 12-13-2011
VMworld Europe and Virtualization Security

It's always interesting to see how different U.S. and European conferences are. VMworld Europe was probably the largest IT conference I've seen in Europe with around 5,000 attendees and it was located in Copenhagen - one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. Having been at VMWorld in Las Vegas...

Posted to CA on Security Management (Weblog) by Nimrod Vax on 11-01-2011
There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Abstraction Layer

Abstraction is a great thing. It's what allows us to build on previously-created tools and not start from scratch every time we perform a task on a computer. Most of us do not realize the many layers of abstraction we're sitting on top of when we do something as simple as reading this blog post...

Posted to CA on Security Management (Weblog) by Russell Miller on 10-11-2011
Watching the Watchers

"Who watches the watchers?", or more concretely, "Who controls the administrators?" has been a challenge for organizations since the mainframe. A recently publicized security breach at a Japanese pharmaceutical company reminds us that this threat is still very real: The extent of...

Posted to CA on Security Management (Weblog) by Russell Miller on 08-25-2011
Protect data, not just access to it, with CA Technologies Content-Aware IAM

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you may be aware of our ongoing vision and strategy relating to Content-Aware IAM. The core tenet of this vision is to provide not only control over user identities and their access, but also over their information use. And, further, we will be integrating our...

Posted to CA on Security Management (Weblog) by Sumner Blount on 11-10-2010
RSA Europe - Outsourced Developers Pose Risk if Privileged User Access is Not Controlled

It was an offer I could not resist. A colleague from an emerging startup company approached me asking whether I could participate on a panel at RSA 2010 Europe titled "Comprehensive Perspective on Virtualization Security and Compliance." A few weeks later I was on a plane headed to London Heathrow...

Posted to CA on Security Management (Weblog) by Nimrod Vax on 10-14-2010
Virtual Entitlements (VE) Sprawl

The late 1990's and early 2000's saw a proliferation of applications within the enterprise. This was not only limited to applications from vendors like SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, etc., but also included JAVA and .NET - based custom applications. Around the same time, regulations such...

Posted to CA on Virtualization and Automation (Weblog) by Birendra Gosai on 07-21-2010
Privileged User Breaches Can Be Avoided

As reported in Dark Reading, the recent indictment of a former TSA employee is continued proof that the need to control privileged users remains paramount. The employee, Douglas James Duchack, was terminated and in the two weeks following his notice he allegedly put malware code on a database server...

Posted to CA on Security Management (Weblog) by Chris Wraight on 03-17-2010
Lessons Learned from Rogue Privileged User Trial

This week the trial opened against a former city network engineer accused of hijacking the city's computer network by withholding the passwords and subsequently any access to the system (he was the only one with the passwords). Whether the engineer is found guilty of a crime in this case remains...

Posted to CA on Security Management (Weblog) by Chris Wraight on 12-16-2009
SharePoint ®Conference 2009: Growth Drives Demand for Management and Security

The Microsoft® SharePoint 2009 Conference took place recently at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas and it was sold out, with over 6,000 attendees. It seems like many are surprised at how quickly SharePoint use has grown over the past couple of years. This rapid growth has created a situation where many enterprise...

Posted to CA on Security Management (Weblog) by David Gormley on 11-04-2009

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