Top 3 Trends Affecting Enterprise Risk Management
In this new global reality of companies rushing to exploit the opportunities of service-oriented architectures (SOAs), clouds and other distributed models of computing, determined outsiders and insiders may seek to exploit vulnerabilities. Consequently, the pervasiveness of these technologies marks a fundamental change in how organizations should approach the accompanying security challenges-especially the top three challenges identified by many organizations as being fundamentally important in the next year.
Identity
Every day billions of people are connecting to one another and therefore identity has taken on a new focus. Applications are no longer secured behind a firewall; more and more they are composites and mashups created from sources inside and outside the enterprise. Transactions depend on the level of trust each party places in the other's credentials and the systems supporting them. Yet considering the rising instances of identity theft and fraud, it is clear that without instituting policies, processes and best practices, that trust can be misplaced, unauthorized or uncertain. Read more…
