Whitepapers
White Paper: Identity and Information Security Integration
September 7, 2009
Jon Oltsik, Principal Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), covers the challenges IT professionals face because identity management and information security solutions were often procured, implemented, and managed independently with different tools, processes, and organizational units. In this white paper, ESG explains how RSA, The Security Division of EMC, and Courion are addressing new user requirements by integrating their best-of-breed identity and security technologies in order to meet the changing needs of demanding enterprise customers.
White Paper: Securing Sensitive Information with Identity and Access Assurance
June 30, 2009
Identity and Access Assurance is a combination of business and information technology practices designed to ensure that only the right people have the right access to the right resources and are doing the right things. This white paper explains how Courion and RSA, The Security Division of EMC, address these challenges and provide best-of-breed solutions that deliver measureable business value.
White Paper: Access Assurance
May 19, 2009
Ensuring only the right people have the right access to the right resources and are doing the right things. In the face of a worldwide economic slowdown, companies and other organizations are increasingly challenged to improve efficiency and effectiveness. At the same time, the impact of government regulations and industry requirements is not lessening. The identity and access management market has evolved from its early focus on password management to today’s focus on Access Assurance.
White Paper: Security Governance of Microsoft® SharePoint® Sites
April 22, 2009
As SharePoint usage proliferates in large and small enterprises alike, what security and governance issues are being uncovered by SharePoint administrators and IT staff? Courion conducted a web-based survey to learn the important issues that IT professionals are finding. This report summarizes the results of this research and four important security and governance concerns.
White Paper: PasswordCourier Web Page Considerations
April 22, 2009
Courion customers gain substantial cost savings, security and service quality benefits when they implement Courion solutions on their external facing web sites. This white paper provides technical recommendations for such deployments.
White Paper: User Provisioning and Access Compliance for Microsoft Environments
April 22, 2009
This brief describes how companies that use Microsoft as their preferred IT technology can leverage this investment with the Courion Enterprise Provisioning Suite™ solution to gain important user provisioning and password management capabilities not provided in Microsoft’s solutions.
White Paper: Achieving Real Results on the Road to Access Compliance
February 19, 2009
This paper discusses the importance of managing IT controls for user access with regards to ensuring compliance and surviving audits. Based on Courion experience and industry trends, the paper defines four important steps to managing access controls, as well as discusses compliance best practices that all organizations can learn from to achieve industry and regulatory compliance.
White Paper: New Meaning for ROI “Risk of Insiders”
February 19, 2009
This paper addresses the increasing threat of insider data breaches and compliance infractions and explains the importance of managing access control within a company’s walls to protect against risk. While risk does exist for external data breaches, more often than not companies are exposing themselves to risk by not assessing who should have access to what information, not properly disabling access, and/or not controlling segregation of duties violations. Courion will explain how once control over access is established, organizations can move on to identifying the greatest areas of risk, and establishing governance over the vulnerabilities.
White Paper: Reining In SharePoint®
February 19, 2009
SharePoint’s popularity has caused concerns that poorly configured or managed SharePoint sites may expose sensitive information to unauthorized access. This Courion Perspective outlines some best practices for protecting SharePoint sites and describes how Courion’s SharePoint solutions ensure security is consistent with best practices, corporate policy, or regulatory requirements.
White Paper: PasswordCourier with Telephone Access
February 5, 2009
This technical white paper tells you how your end users can securely reset their own forgotten passwords through an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) application, using a touch-tone telephone.
White Paper: Self-Service Password Management and SSO
February 5, 2009
If your are considering implementing a single sign-on technology, learn why self-service password management can make the solution more effective.
White Paper: User Provisioning
February 4, 2009
This paper details best practices for developing a user provisioning and access management strategy, key considerations when selecting an automated provisioning solution, and Courion's results-oriented approach to automated user provisioning.
White Paper: Role Management
February 4, 2009
Role management can be both very challenging and very rewarding to customers seeking simplified user administration, efficient user provisioning, and improved compliance and risk management. To make the right decision for your organization, you need to ask the right questions and avoid common pitfalls. This paper discusses key considerations around the business and technology aspects of role management, and describes Courion’s experience-based approach to helping customers achieve their desired results.