Defending against insider threats to reduce your IT risk.

Recommendations for risk management

As IT infrastructures become more complex, managing who, what, where, when and how IT resources and data are being accessed has never been more important. The IT department has a big job in managing technology, but today's businesses want IT to act more as a service provider — one that helps the organisation to achieve its objectives efficiently and cost-effectively. This CA white paper looks at research that shows the effectiveness of identity and access management (IAM) solutions in helping to increase security and comply with industry compliance and regulations, including: - Preventing fraud - Protecting privacy - Managing and authenticating identities - Managing or reducing costs

Control IT risk from the inside

The usefulness of the cloud and virtualisation has a dark side: businesses are more susceptible to insider security and privacy breaches. From privileged administrators to regular users with access to sensitive information, these users add complexity and challenges to a cloud and virtualisation-based business, causing organisations to look at: - Volume of data and logging IT activity; - Choosing a proactive rather than reactive approach to threats; - Balancing risk and productivity by knowing who has access to what data. This CA white paper examines how businesses can adopt a strong stance to defend against insider threats.

Benefiting from identity and access management

As businesses aim to be more secure and maintain privacy controls, identity and access management has grown in both use and importance. It helps define who has access to what information and what they can do with that access, allowing businesses to: - Protect information from misuse or disclosure; - Enable growth without sacrificing security. This CA white paper looks at several cases in which an integrated approach to content-aware identity and access management can help with the protection of data and allocating access to users, all in the name of a secure business.

Identity and access management secures virtual environments

Virtualisation has succeeded in helping businesses cut costs and simplify operations. Now, organisations are challenged to contain the security risks introduced over virtual machines, especially within areas such as: - Managing roles, identities and applications; - Controlling privileged users and data growth; - Updating auditing practices. This CA white paper discusses how an ideal organisation can seamlessly manage its physical and virtualised environments using identity and access management tools to control user privileges and data.

Cloud computing and virtualisation: Why IT automation matters.