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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Four over-rated security technologies A database security expert says anti-virus packages offer little advanced protection while others complain identity and access management products do not work as advertised. Some users say network access control takes years to configure properly and question the use of firewalls
Friday, February 29, 2008
IT security lacking in best practices According to a recent survey of IT security professionals, the need for best practices knowledge was their top challenge.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Canadian firms admit data protection challenges One in seven respondents to a survey commissioned by the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance say their companies lack best practices for dealing with security threats. Microsoft and other vendors discuss the results
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Enterprise search plans focus on security first While the benefits to companies using enterprise search technology, such as Google’s OneBox for Enterprise, are numerous, there’s sometimes hesitation in adopting such organizational methods due to concerns over network security. So what are search companies doing to help make a network manager’s life a bit easier when it comes to search and security? 
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Lead analyst, The Stategic Counsel A recent survey of the Canadian enterprise security landscape offers good news and bad news. The bad news is that security attacks on large Canadian organizations have grown significantly – to 82 per cent, up from 67 per cent three years ago. The good news? The ability of enterprises to understand, detect and counteract attacks is also increasing.
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
HP pumps up ID suite Hewlett-Packard this week upgraded three applications in its identity and access management suite with capabilities that the company says will help users set specific privacy guidelines and better integrate multiple identities across disparate systems. 
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Atlantic hospital network finds a connectivity cure for IT woes Derrick Jardine, CIO of Atlantic Health Sciences Corp. (AHSC), needed a painless solution for his connectivity headaches. Physicians with the New Brunswick-based network of 12 hospitals and health centres were clamouring for remote access. Without a secure method, getting laboratory results and other patient information from the hospital meant a delay of up to four days for printouts to be delivered to their home offices, or a drive to the hospital.
Sunday, January 09, 2005
BMC to buy ID management company Companies that make identity management software continue to be hot commodities in 2005, as they were in 2004, as BMC Software Inc. announced plans to acquire a company that makes user identity management and technology. 
Monday, June 07, 2004
IBM hooking .Net into access mgmt. IBM Corp. next week for the first time will add support for Microsoft Corp.'s .Net development tools to its access management software, letting corporations build support for IBM's identity management platform directly into Windows-based applications. 
Thursday, November 15, 2001
James R. Borck: Access management can be the key to efficiency Managing enterprise resource accessibility is a time-consuming and costly endeavour for many companies.
Sunday, October 14, 2001
Who holds the keys? Enterprise user-access management solutions provide a means of reducing the administrative burden and time required to provision resource entitlements.
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