For an enterprise to answer and implement the numerous possible initiatives in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) it is first necessary to know what is necessary and what is possible. The authors of the white paper "Governance, Risk, and Compliance: A Practical Guide to Points of Entry" break these initiatives down into their components in order to consider them singly in the order of easiest to most difficult to plan for and implement.
United States' National Security Agency (NSA) will be working with Sun and the OpenSolaris community to develop security enhancements to complement the security benefits of the mandatory access controls provided by the Solaris Trusted Extensions feature. The plan is to integrate an additional form of mandatory access control (MAC), based on the Flux Advanced Security Kernel (Flask) architecture.
Why is identity management infrastructure and in particular automated role management critical to businesses today? John Barco, director of product marketing and product management for Sun, and Sachin Nayyar, CEO and founder of Vaau, explain how three major business disasters can be avoided with the implementation of these types of solutions.
Identity management infrastructure doesn't always have to live in-house, write Eve Maler and Marina Sum in a Sun Developer Network piece, where they suggest that user login sessions and even user attribute data might handily be given to an external source. In a nutshell, they are encouraging the distribution of identity information and tasks across security domains, which gives deployers the latitude to focus on their actual business.
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