SecurityRatty: Top Five Intriguing Ideas for Authentication in 2008

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Top Five Intriguing Ideas for Authentication in 2008

2007-12-10 00:00:00 by Sean Kline in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast

Controls as part of a broader strategy
Organizations still make decisions on how to authenticate requests (often users) based on individual applications, infrastructure deployments or regulatory requirements. This is one of the contributors to a "quilt of security doilies", to paraphrase the CTO of a top bank who I met recently. Point security solutions have proliferated throughout organizations making it very difficult and costly to manage. In 2008, organizations will increasingly adopt frameworks like Information Risk Management to assess which threats to mitigate, inventory the types of controls (including authentication) that they need and take a more holistic approach to implementing their strategy...