Stories about: Netegrity

CA this week is set to unveil a slew of security, management and automation products that have industry watchers and IT managers speculating the embattled software vendor may succeed at making its technology better integrated and easier to use.

Imagine having to provide authentication and authorization services for some 1,000 departments within your organization, while giving about 360,000 administrators control over which individuals get access to what resources. Now imagine that the vast majority of those groups and administrators work for companies other than your own.

Communicating the importance of security risk and the need for related investment to those less familiar is no easy task, but industry experts agree there are a few techniques that you can follow as a CSO, CISO, or project manager to help get your point across and curry favor with other business leaders.

I'm sure many of you can relate when I say that a company with a single point of failure is primed for disaster. Sadly, there's one in my department.

Tibco Software has upgraded its BusinessWorks enterprise service bus to leverage the Web Services BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) 2.0 specification.

Computer Associates has introduced a new program in Australia that's aimed at boosting customer satisfaction, which will be rolled out across the organization over the next 12 months.

For a year John Stewart has been CSO at Cisco. He's in charge of a team of 60 information security professionals who play a role in IT architecture, policy, audit and incident response to protect an internal user base of about 48,000 employees worldwide. Stewart recently discussed Cisco's risk-management strategy with Network World Senior Editor Ellen Messmer.

Large-scale acquisitions are probably a thing of the past for CA, according to the software vendor's new chief technology officer (CTO), Al Nugent.

CA and HP are announcing better integration within their respective identity management suites so that customers can more easily secure application access and enforce compliance policies.

CA plans next week to announce integration of its SiteMinder extranet management product with its single sign-on enterprise access management tool. The integration would further extend single sign-on capability across the Web and client/server and legacy systems, which would cut costs and make it easier for companies to comply with government regulations, according to a CA statement.

CA has agreed to buy application management software vendor Wily Technology for US$375 million in cash, the companies announced Thursday.