Stories about: Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards

New companies have to be brash to enter the network security market, given that the industry has witnessed an explosion in creativity over the past five years and considering that big players such as Microsoft and IBM increasingly are throwing their weight around in security.

Federated identity management is a relatively new concept that is an extension of identity management, which is a centralized, automated approach to regulating access to enterprise resources by employees and other authorized individuals.

IBM and Microsoft are set to turn over to a standards body a key set of Web services security specifications they have been developing for establishing trust and exchanging data between partners.

Today's Web-connected applications need more than just firewalls. Application-security gateways can't grow up fast enough.

Today's Web-connected applications need more than just firewalls. Application-security gateways can't grow up fast enough

The castle-and-moat era of information security is over: Now it’s described as woven cloth, submarines, onions and Snickers bars. How will CSOs translate nutty metaphors into secure worldwide systems?

Maintaining security on their networks is critical for all companies. One primary tool that every network needs is access control -- the ability to carefully define and enforce which users have what type of access to specific applications, data and devices.

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