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Case Study: Baker Tilly Virchow Krause Builds Trust With Strong Authentication

Customer Data Is Accessible Yet Safe Whether Users Are Connected Or Not

by Bill Nagel, November 16, 2009

Matt Jennings at Baker Tilly Virchow Krause needed to overhaul the accounting and advisory firm's security processes and technologies to ensure ongoing regulatory compliance and customer confidence. Replacing the company's use of a single password as . . .

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Case Study: The Smart Card Is King At Deloitte Ireland

A Multifunctional Authentication Credential Is Now Integral To Employees' Daily Lives

by Bill Nagel, July 23, 2009

John Gray at Deloitte Ireland had a vision for a multifunctional second-factor authentication credential that would not only address the company's need to better protect its data, network, and facilities but also become a positive aspect of the firm's . . .

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Best Practices: Implementing Strong Authentication In Your Enterprise

Kill Two Birds With One Token

by Bill Nagel, July 23, 2009

The adoption of strong multifactor authentication (MFA) is on the rise. It's often the first port of call on the journey to a fuller identity and access management implementation; MFA directly addresses the password problem, which is a well-known and . . .

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Case Study: For Avaya, Customers Are Not A Token Consideration

A Plug-And-Go Smart Token Combines With PKI For Security And Auditability

by Bill Nagel, July 23, 2009

Rick Robinson at Avaya had a vision for a multifunctional second-factor authentication credential that would satisfy customer compliance requirements without significant adverse effects on his engineering and technical support staff. By testing how well . . .

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Identity And Access Management Adoption In Europe: 2008

by Bill Nagel, April 16, 2009

Interest in and adoption of identity and access management (IAM) technologies has been growing steadily over the past few years, fueled both by the desire to streamline processes relating to employee, contractor, partner, and customer access to company . . .

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Inquiry Spotlight: E-Signatures, Q2 2009

by Bill Nagel, April 2, 2009

The current economic and regulatory climate has made it more important than ever for firms to find ways of streamlining business processes while maintaining the security and integrity of the associated data. E-signatures combine the security of digital . . .

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Enterprise IT Security In Europe: 2008

Business Data Services Europe

by Bill Nagel, March 2, 2009

How are European enterprises adopting, using, and managing IT security technologies, including client security, data security, content filtering, and business continuity and disaster recovery? This document highlights an extensive data set collected from . . .

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SMB IT Security In Europe: 2008

Business Data Services Europe

by Bill Nagel, February 26, 2009

How are small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) in Europe adopting, using, and managing IT security technologies, including client security, data security, content filtering, and business continuity and disaster recovery? This document gives highlights . . .

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Case Study: Unisys Takes Its Own Authentication Medicine

Systems Integrator Chooses An Integrated Credential To Solve Global Physical And Logical Access Challenges

by Bill Nagel, October 21, 2008

Unisys is a large and diversified systems integrator with operations worldwide. In recent years, the firm has seen its global workforce become increasingly mobile. At the same time, techniques to defeat passwords have become more sophisticated, eroding . . .

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European Security Managers Turn Their Gaze Inward In 2008

Key Takeaways From Forrester's Security Forum EMEA

by Bill Nagel, July 25, 2008

Forrester held its second Security Forum EMEA in Amsterdam on April 2 and 3, 2008, with 125 security and risk management (SRM) professionals in attendance discussing how to tackle transformation and achieve excellence in SRM. We asked many of these delegates . . .

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Market Overview: Strong Authentication For Enterprises In 2008

Securing The Doors To Your IT Environment

by Bill Nagel, July 16, 2008

Security professionals have long known that passwords are no longer sufficient to act as the sole means of gatekeeping access to enterprise network and data resources. Increasingly, they're putting that knowledge into action: More than half of the enterprises . . .

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Extending Mobile Identity Beyond Authentication

Banks, Mobile Operators, And Vendors Team Up For SIM Card-Based Security

by Bill Nagel, April 11, 2008

With mobile phones reaching saturation levels in many countries, banks and other service providers are taking a second look at providing financial and commercial services over the mobile channel. Mobile banking and PKI both flamed out spectacularly in . . .

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Government eID Projects Need Private Sector Initiative And Support For Broader Success

A Look At Europe's Experience With PKI-Enabled National ID Cards

by Bill Nagel, April 7, 2008

To date, at least 12 European countries have either developed or rolled out national electronic citizen IDs (eIDs) based on a government-created and -managed public key infrastructure (PKI) or are in the process of doing so. National governments intended . . .

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Biometrics: Beginning To Fulfill Its Promise

by Geoffrey Turner, Bill Nagel, February 26, 2008

Public uncertainty about biometrics' impact on privacy and civil liberties has long kept the technology from realizing its full potential. However, these concerns have stemmed primarily from an incomplete understanding of the technology and a mistrust . . .

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Case Study: 1 Million Strong For Absa

Rapid Response, Decisive Action, And Forward Thinking Add Up To Mobile Authentication Success

by Bill Nagel, January 31, 2008

In 2003, the South African bank Absa Group faced a big obstacle: It was the victim of one of the first major phishing attacks on Internet banking that the country had seen. Up to that point, account numbers and PINs had sufficed to safeguard customers' . . .

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Mobile Authentication Marries Security With Convenience

A Token-Killing Form Factor For Secure Consumer Online Banking

by Bill Nagel, November 16, 2007

Financial institutions seeking to expand their online and mobile banking offerings to their entire customer base face the age-old challenge of balancing security with usability. Many banks feel trapped: Fail to implement strong authentication and incur . . .

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The Evolving Security Organization

Defining An Appropriate Organizational Structure And Staffing Model For Information Security

by Khalid Kark, Bill Nagel, July 26, 2007

In the past few years, the siloed IT security role has rapidly added to its responsibilities and transformed itself into the cross-functional information risk management role. This has left many firms scrambling to structure their security and risk organizations . . .

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What's Top Of Mind For European Security Managers?

Key Takeaways From Forrester's Security Forum EMEA

by Bill Nagel, Thomas Raschke, May 7, 2007

On April 16 and 17, 2007, Forrester held its inaugural Security Forum EMEA in Amsterdam, with more than 100 security and risk (S&R) professionals in attendance. We asked many of these delegates about the issues that matter the most to them in performing . . .

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Planning Your Next Disaster

Structuring A Successful BC/DR Implementation And Avoiding The Pitfalls

by Rudiger Krojnewski, Bill Nagel, April 18, 2007

Firms recognize that, for various reasons, they have to build or rebuild their disaster recovery and business continuity (BC/DR) plan and implementation. From the very beginning of this crucial undertaking, companies must consider how to: determine their . . .

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The State Of Security In SMBs And Enterprises

Business Technographics Europe

by Natalie Lambert, Bill Nagel, February 6, 2007

Forrester surveyed 626 technology decision-makers at European small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) and 643 technology decision-makers at European enterprises to understand the state of IT security. Security remains a high priority for enterprise infrastructure . . .

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European IT Governance Takes A Step Back

Business Technographics Europe

by Bill Nagel, Malcolm Ramsay, January 4, 2007

European IT spending stumbled in 2006, with enterprises planning to dedicate a full percentage point less of their total revenues to IT, although execs expect this to rebound in 2007. IT continues to be a mainly centralized function, with improved CIO . . .

Disaster Recovery: It's Not Just An IT Problem

Businesses Risk Shortchanging Recovery And Continuity Projects

by Rudiger Krojnewski, Bill Nagel, November 13, 2006

Disaster recovery and business continuity (DRBC) systems allow firms to have contingency plans in place to keep the business running in the aftermath of natural or man-made circumstances that render their primary business premises or data center unusable. . . .

Navigating The European Security Compliance Jungle

Don't Leave Home Without A Compass

by Thomas Raschke, Bill Nagel, September 19, 2006

All organizations operate in a context of government regulations and industry standards. EU-wide directives, EU member state laws, and US regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) that cut across industries combine with industry-specific regulations like . . .

Consumer Technology In The Workplace: Blessing Or Curse?

It Can Help The Bottom Line Or Give Away The Store

by Paul Jackson, Bill Nagel, September 6, 2006

Today's offices are full of employees' personal technology like iPods, mobile phones, Bluetooth headsets, and thumb drives. This is in marked contrast to 10 years ago, when technology tended to travel from the office to the home — but not the other way. . . .

Symantec's Acquisition Strategy

Today Security, Tomorrow The World

by Thomas Raschke, Bill Nagel, May 30, 2006

Since 2000, Symantec has been aggressively acquiring companies — 25 in total. Six years ago, the firm was a relatively small vendor chiefly known for its consumer antivirus software — but acquisitions changed all that, expanding Symantec's remit into . . .