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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.

Webcasts and podcasts | White papers / technical papers | Tools and calculators | Datasheets and solution overviews

Webcasts/podcasts

BankInfo Security logo

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.

Webinar: Complimenting Your PCI Compliance Efforts

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.

Webinar: Complimenting Your PCI Compliance Efforts

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 to Steal Credit Card Numbers

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 Data Center: Eliminating the Threat Hiding in Plain Sight

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

White paper: The Hidden Threat of Hard-Coded Passwords

Best Practices of Privileged Password Management
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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.

White Paper - Achieve SOX Compliance with Cloakware

Achieve Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliance with Cloakware
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The challenges of complying with the relevant sections of the
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) legislation are broad and complex for any IT organization. This paper discusses the ways that Cloakware Password Authority™ helps IT organizations meet the requirements of SOX assertion and attestation compliance processes.

White paper: Achieve Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Compliance with Cloakware

Achieve Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Compliance with Cloakware
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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.

White Paper - Achieve FISMA Compliance with Cloakware

Achieve Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Compliance with Cloakware
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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
for federal agencies, contractors and other organizations.

White Paper - Achieve Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliance with Cloakware

Achieve Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliance with Cloakware
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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.

White Paper - Achieve Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliance with Cloakware

Achieve Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Compliance with Cloakware
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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.

White Paper - Achieve FISMA Compliance with Cloakware

HSPD-12 Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors
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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...

   

Tools and calculators

Datasheet - Privileged password management solutions by Cloakware

Cost-savings calculator:
Privileged user password management

 

 


Datasheets and solution overviews

Corporate Overview

Corporate Overview
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Datasheet - Privileged password management solutions by Cloakware

Cloakware Password Authority™
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Datasheet - Software Security Solutions by Cloakware

Cloakware Security Suite
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Datasheet - Privileged password management solutions by Cloakware

Cloakware Password Authority's Service Oriented Architecture

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has the potential to deliver many benefits,
but it also presents many security challenges. The general premise underlying SOA is the loose coupling of the various services required to allow an application to complete its task. Request this solution overview for more details.

Cloakware Password Authority™
and Oracle Identity and Access
Management Suite™

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.