Security Management Strategies for the CIOAccess "5 Steps for Developing Strong Change Management Program Best Practices"
This article is part of the May 2008 issue of Seven questions to ask before committing to SaaS
Poor change control can send your organization's security tumbling. Follow these 5 steps for a strong change management program. Mysterious activity shows up on key network devices at 2 a.m., setting off alarms in the network operations center. You're blocking Telnet and outside connections to the network, so this activity makes no sense. After 15 minutes of scrambling for answers, you find those connections weren't blocked at all. Earlier in the week someone made a change to grant network access to a vendor's technician, unintentionally creating a nightmare for you. This simplistic example illustrates an important point: all too often, inadequate change control is the root cause of many headaches and sleepless nights for secu-rity managers. Keeping networks locked down is incredibly difficult because networks are in constant flux; patches must be applied, partners must be granted access and new services must be provisioned. One unmanaged change could send the neatly aligned and secured blocks of your network tumbling to the ground. Change management can ... Access >>>
Access TechTarget
Premium Content for Free.
What's Inside
Features
-
-
SaaS Offering Handles SSO
TechFocus: New Password Hell?
- Viewpoint: Let's add policy to GRC
-
Product review: CodeArmor 2.2 for Microsoft .NET
APPLICATION SECURITY
-
Security Services: Webroot Email Security SaaS
At Your Service
-
Identity Management Suites Enable Integration, Interoperability
IDENTITY MANAGEMENT Feature-rich product suites are putting a face on integration and interoperability.
-
SaaS Offering Handles SSO
-
-
Secure Computing SafeWord 2008 product review
Secure Computing SafeWord 2008 delivers identity management and access control for Windows systems using tokens that generate secure single-use passcodes. Information Security magazine reviews these capabilities.
-
7 Security Questions to Ask Your SaaS Provider
Outsourcing software as a service (SaaS) puts control over an organization's applications in the hands of others. Learn what questions to ask your provider, how to define security policies, how to understand how service providers handle security and ensure enforcement of policies.
-
Product review: Symantec Database Security 3.1
DATABASE SECURITY
-
5 Steps for Developing Strong Change Management Program Best Practices
Poor change control and configuration management can affect the security of your systems and networks. Follow these five steps for a strong change management program.
-
Product review: Mandiant Intelligent Response 1.0
INCIDENT RESPONSE
-
Secure Computing SafeWord 2008 product review
-
Columns
-
Interview: Jim Kirkhope of NCR
PING: Jim Kirkhope
-
Face-Off: Is vulnerability research ethical?
Bruce Schneier and Marcus Ranum debate the ethics of vulnerability research
-
Reasearch on Coding Backdoors Presents Ugly Picture
Editor's Desk: Backdoor Bedlam
-
Security, Privacy Offices Must Combine Resources
Perspectives: Nowhere to Hide
-
Interview: Jim Kirkhope of NCR
More Premium Content Accessible For Free
Unlock new pathways to network security architecture
E-Zine
Network security architecture is showing its age at many organizations. With new technology, different data types, and use of multi-generations of ...
Emerging threat detection techniques and products
E-Handbook
Advanced persistent threat (APT) has been a used and abused term in the security industry, but security experts say targeted attacks are a growing ...
The rapid evolution of MDM solutions
E-Zine
Mobile device management (MDM) continues to grow at a feverish pace, both in terms of adoption and mobile security features. BYOD policies, and the ...