PRIVILEGED IDENTITY MANAGEMENT NEWS LINE
September
2010
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 Who's Watching the Watchers? Philip Lieberman President & CEO Lieberman Software Inside your data center it’s the system administrators, DB admins, and IT managers who hold all the power — controlling everything from employee access to the confidentiality of private customer data. So much power in the hands of a few individuals ought to be a scary prospect to organizations that depend upon IT to keep the business running and data secure. The simple truth is that today virtually all IT staff enjoy anonymous, unaudited, 24/7 access to your data center applications, computers, and appliances through use of privileged account credentials. More IT auditors are beginning to notice that this lack of accountability has brought organizations out of compliance with key industry mandates — SOX, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and others. The bad guys have also taken notice, exploiting these all-powerful and often poorly secured credentials in many of the latest, headline-grabbing breaches that include the attacks on Google and other U.S. technology firms. Organizations that are looking to advance IT governance and stay compliant should ask these four questions… Read the rest of Best Practices for Watching the Watchers in Enterprise Systems Journal. Having worked with many organizations over the years, I've realized that shared passwords, seldom changed privileged credentials, and employees with too much access and too little accountability are the rule rather than the exception. The outcome is never good: embarrassing security breaches and costly IT audit failures. What do you think? Email me at: phil@liebsoft.com.
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Wings Financial Founded in 1938, Wings Financial serves 126,000 members from 130 air transportation companies worldwide, including 54 airlines. Wings also serves people throughout the 13 county Twin Cities metropolitan area. Wings ranks among the top 50 credit unions by asset size out of more than 8,000 credit unions in the United States. The Situation: Without a reliable and automated method to regularly locate and change its privileged account passwords, Wings Financial was burdened with IT workload issues and increased security risks. The Solution: Enterprise Random Password Manager was deployed in the credit union’s enterprise to track, update and store privileged account passwords. The Result: Wings Financial increased IT staff productivity, secured access to its sensitive financial data, and proved compliance with regulatory password change requirements. Click here to read the detailed case study. Featured commentary on our Identity Week blog this month includes:
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