Briefings Direct

In an age of significant layoffs and corporate restructuring, the burgeoning problem of identity and access management for IT operations and data centers has escalated into a critical security issue. Managing who gets access to which resources for how long -- and under what circumstances -- has become a huge and thorny problem. Improper and overextended access to sensitive data and powerful applications can cause massive risk as employees are upset. To learn more about how enterprises should begin coordinated identity and access management strategies, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner spoke with Dan Rueckert, worldwide practice director for security and risk management in HP’s Consulting and Integration group; Archie Reed, distinguished technologist in HP’s security office in the Enterprise Storage and Server Group, and Mark Tice, vice president of identity management at Oracle. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/11/identity-and-access-management-key-to.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.