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Container Security 101: Understanding the Basics of Securing Containers

by Charlene O’Hanlon on July 26, 2019

By now it’s apparent to cybersecurity teams everywhere that the proverbial container genie is out of the bottle. Developers have widely embraced containers because they make building and deploying so-called cloud native applications simpler than ever. Not only do containers eliminate much of the friction typically associated with moving application code from testing through to..
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Security Challenges in the Cloud: Solving for Visibility and Protection Across Architectures

by Charlene O’Hanlon on July 26, 2019

With the rise of cloud native applications, IT organizations in the never-ending pursuit of increased agility have now started to embrace new platforms at faster rates than ever before. There are now no less than three distinct layers of cloud native abstractions that are simultaneously being employed to run varying classes of cloud native application..
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How to Identify Compromised Devices with Certainty

by Charlene O’Hanlon on July 10, 2019

It seems like there is an endless amount of exciting new devices these days, capable of things people never thought possible. But as with any technology stack, all devices come with inherent risks. Most security products only protect a fraction of all endpoints or require an agent to be installed in order to monitor them,..
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How to manage SAP-User Accounts and Access Rights with Identity Manager

by Charlene O’Hanlon on July 8, 2019

Learn how you can simplify the management of SAP-user accounts and their access rights. Native SAP tools fall short and aren’t useful across the entire ecosystem. Read this white paper to see how your organization can integrate SAP-user data with your identity and access management (IAM) system and processes. One Identity Manager streamlines user administration..
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SAP Customer Stories

by Charlene O’Hanlon on July 8, 2019

Why struggle with IAM, especially when it comes to SAP? One Identity Manager is a comprehensive IAM solution that’s certified by SAP to work seamlessly with the growing portfolio of SAP modules. With Identity Manager, you can dramatically simplify and improve user lifecycle management, governance and authentication for all your SAP implementations. Identity Manager also..
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The State of DevSecOps

by Charlene O’Hanlon on June 24, 2019

For years now, IT’s mantra has been “move quickly and break things.” To increase agility, companies adopted innovative and quick development practices. Great redesigns took place in the wake of DevOps. However, in this rush to implement forward-thinking practices, many teams eschewed security. No longer can institutions disregard security requirements within their DevOps environment. The..
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The Second Wave of IT Security: How Today’s Leaders See the Future

by Charlene O’Hanlon on May 14, 2019

As network security issues grew in the 1970s, and the 1980s brought the widespread use of the internet, the IT security profession expanded to address the malicious threats and innocent user mistakes of highly connected users and machines. Today, the security industry is experiencing what could be called a renaissance of sorts. Security professionals are..
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A Simple Guide to Successful Penetration Testing

by Charlene O’Hanlon on May 7, 2019

How effective are your existing security controls against a skilled adversary? Discover the answer with penetration testing. The main difference between a penetration test and an attacker is permission. A hacker won’t ask for permission when trying to expose your critical systems and assets, so pen test to protect. A pen test is not just..
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Doing Identity Access Right

by Charlene O’Hanlon on May 7, 2019

Caring for your company data as one of your most valuable assets can seem like a constant balancing act. In a world of corporate hacks and ransomware, keeping your data under digital lock and key is absolutely essential. But so is allowing your employees to use it to do their best work. Managing who has..
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Speed and Scale: How Machine Identity Protection is Crucial for Digital Transformation and DevOps

by Charlene O’Hanlon on April 24, 2019

Digital transformation requires new approaches to security, demanding the protection of machine identities that enable authentication and encryption required for secure machine-to-machine communication. Solving machine identity protection challenges within DevOps environments, requires a fundamentally new approach. Information Security teams must deliver a frictionless, automated solution that allows DevOps engineers to seamlessly provision and manage..
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