Datacenter security resource center
Cloakware's datacenter security experts have published various white papers, Webinars, technical articles and other educational materials that explain topics related to datacenter security, audit compliance (SOX, FERC, FISMA, HIPAA, PCI) and privileged password management. Please find these resources, along with our product datasheets, below. Can't find what you're looking for? Please contact our Web team.
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Webcasts/podcasts
The Future of Banking Enterprise Access Management & Authentication - Emerging Technologies Insights Original air date: January 2009 It's never been a more challenging time for Identity and Access Management (IAM). Banking institutions themselves are ever more complex, what with extended networks of remote employees, contractors and vendors, as well as the number of critical business applications - and private data - they're accessing via these networks. In this webinar you will hear from industry thought-leaders who will discuss trends and technologies related to all aspects of IAM, including enrolment/identification, authentication, validating the employee is legitimate, provisioning and more. Transcript also available. |
Webcast: Solving the Other Two Thirds of your Identity Challenge Original air date: December 2008 Privileged password management is a sub-category of an overall Identity Management effort but comprises two thirds of your identity challenge. Privileged passwords can be used by administrators and/or applications and the policies that govern their use are entirely different from end-user passwords. The number of privileged passwords residing on your network can be 2 to 3 times the number of your end-user passwords. This webinar will explain the privileged password compliance issue and an approach to solving the challenge of managing these passwords. |
Webcast: Complimenting Your PCI Compliance Efforts Original air date: November 2008 Join Cloakware Chief Technologist, Robert Grapes, as he discusses how business and governments seeking a cost effective, scalable, robust solution to the life cycle management of elevated privileged passwords can meet PCI DSS audit requirements. Topics include: The problems with unmanaged passwords, Understanding the PCI-DSS requirements, Password Authority's applicability to PCI-DSS and others. |
Video: How Sensitive Credit Card Data Can Be Stolen Original air date: October 2008 Don't let this contractor steal your organization's application data! |
Podcast: Securing the Datacenter: Eliminating the Threat Hiding in Plain Sight Original air date: April 2007 Listen in as this podcast describes the security risks of unmanaged administrator and application-to-application passwords that lurk in datacenters everywhere. While many organizations manage end-user IDs and passwords effectively, they fail to manage these more important elevated, and privilege passwords which guard access to an organization's most sensitive data. |
White papers / technical papers
Best Practices of Privileged Password Management Solve the privileged password management challenge! Gain insight into the security vulnerabilities of servers, the security challenges beyond access controls, how to secure the datacenter through application password management and discover solutions for secure centralized password management for application servers. |
Achieve Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliance with Cloakware The challenges of complying with the relevant sections of the |
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Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Compliance with Cloakware The CIP standards include several sections that address requirements for managing datacenter passwords. This paper discusses the ways that Cloakware Password Authority™ supports and enables compliance with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Reliability Standards. |
Achieve Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Compliance with Cloakware The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), passed in 2002 as part of the United States E-Government Act, delivers a mandatory list of processes that must be followed for all information systems. This paper discusses how Cloakware Password Authority™ supports and enables compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) processes and standings |
Achieve Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliance with Cloakware To aid in preventing the theft of payment card information, key industry players including Visa, MasterCard and Discover created the Payment Card Industry data security standard (PCI DSS). This paper discusses the ways that Cloakware Password Authority™ supports and complies with the requirements of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) V1.1. |
HIPAA’s compliance dates of April 21, 2005 (April 21, 2006 for small health plans) demanded much attention, resources and money from the covered organizations to remedy their existing and planned systems and processes where electronic protected health information (EPHI) was involved. While security and privacy are linked intrinsically, it is the application of the appropriate security techniques that actually helps to mitigate the risks associated with the identified threats to stored or transmitted EPHI. |
HSPD-12 Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors On August 27, 2004, the President signed HSPD-12 “Policy for a Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors” (the Directive). The Directive requires the development and agency implementation of a mandatory, government-wide standard... |
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Cloakware Password Authority's Service Oriented Architecture Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has the potential to deliver many benefits, |
Cloakware Password Authority™ and Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite™ Cloakware leverages the power, scalability and integration capabilities of the Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite to deliver a comprehensive solution to the management of all identities within an organization including end-user, administrator and embedded/application-to-application identities. |
