It’s what’s on the inside that counts… in access compliance
Posted by Courion Corporation on Mon, Feb 02, 2009
As recently reported in Network World, the Ponemon Institute 2008 survey found that, "88% of all data breach cases for 2008 were traced back to insider negligence." Couple this with the ever rising cost of coping with a breach, "$6.6 million per breach, up from $6.3 million in 2007 and $4.7 million in 2006" and the irreparable damage a breach can cause to a company's brand and it's easy to see why "insider threats" need to remain top-of-mind.
Two of the most-cited steps companies took following a breach were identity and access management and data loss prevention (DLP) product deployments, which more and more companies are looking to integrate to increase compliance effectiveness as a cornerstone of their GRC arsenal.
Access governance, access provisioning and access compliance, coupled with access intelligence (i.e., data loss prevention, security incident and event management (SIEM) and other detective technologies) are the heart of any successful access assurance strategy.