Three engineers and three accountants were traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three accountants each bought tickets and watched as the three engineers bought only one ticket.
"How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" asked an accountant.
"Watch and you'll see", answered an engineer.
They all boarded the train. The accountants took their respective seats, but the three engineers all crammed into a rest room and closed the door behind them. Shortly after the train departed, the conductor came around collecting tickets. He knocked on the restroom door and said, "Ticket, please".
The door opened just a crack and a single arm emerged with a ticket in hand.
The conductor took it and moved on. The accountants saw this and agreed it was a quite clever idea. So, after the conference, the accountants decide to copy the engineers on the return trip and save some money (being clever with money, and all that). When they got to the station, they bought a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment, the engineers didn't buy a ticket at all.
"How are you going to ride without a ticket"? said one perplexed accountant. "Watch and you'll see", answered an engineer.
When they boarded the train, the three accountants crammed into a restroom and the three engineers crammed into another one nearby. The train departed. Shortly afterward, one of the engineers left his restroom and walked over to the restroom where the accountants were hiding. He knocked on the door and said, "Ticket, please."
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Cyber-Ark Delivers New Performance and Ease-of-Use Benefits for its Privileged Identity Management Suite v5.5
Cyber-Ark, the leading global software provider for protecting critical applications, identities and information, today announced enhancements to its Privileged Identity Management Suite.
The suite includes a new version of its Application Identity Manager™ that features the most secure and robust authentication methods for App2App environments, resulting in greater compliance, security and corporate accountability while dramatically simplifying large scale projects for eliminating hard-coded passwords.
Have you every wonder why sometime your System Administrator need to lock down all the physical endpoint ports at organization? If ports are opened up to all, how to you ensure what type of documents is copied out? After copying out, how do you make sure that documents are secured after being copied out from your company premises?
Some scenarios to be shared:
Scenario 1:
Curiosity kills a cat. If one day a 500 GB Portable Hard Disk or a thumb Drive is found sitting somewhere, temptation will always be there to see what information are stored inside the devices.
Scenario 2:
Sometime, endpoint devices such as USB Removable Storage Device can use as sabotage tool. Typically, if a malicious guy want to sabotage an organization, he could just drop a removable disk, which contains Trojan, Virus, near the premises and just hoping that there is one of the staff could just pick it up and plug into the network to get your network affected.
What is Lumension?
Lumension, is well known for his Patch Management capabilities. They do not just simply do patching but in fact they emphasize on the word ‘accurate’ while doing patching to a machine or a system. After years down the road, they acquired the services of STAT, which is doing vulnerability scanning and also SecureWave, which main focus is on doing application and device control.
Why Lumension Data Protection Suite?
Data Leakage is often a main concern to all people. How to you ensure that data are always protected and making sure is secure if it is out of the organization? I believed that most common practice in an organization for endpoint control is either allowed or disallowed the ports. There is another practice is to allow all usage of USB Removable Devices but based on the Acceptance Usage Policy, each individual staff is responsible for keeping the private data secure, but what is the level of trust can you trust a person? Is there anyway to gauge the trust?
Lumension Data Protection Suite provides some remarkable features:
Whitelisting Approach
Structure and Granular Policy
Encryption
Bi-Directional Shadowing
Online/Offline Permission Setting
Detail Auditing Logs
4 easy steps to achieve Endpoint Security
Discover - Firstly, you have to discover what are being plug into the endpoint and what common endpoint are commonly used.
Assess - Based on the discovery, you need to define a policy by setting the permission on what is allowed within your organization based on the whitelisting approach.
Implement - After defining of policy, you need to enforce and roll out the policy to machine.
Monitor and reporting - Monitoring of Devices is a very important process because this will determine if the policy setting is it too strict or too lenient. Reports will be provided in assisting the monitoring process based on the compliance standards.
In order to be an effective salesperson, several factors come in to play. One key factor being the ability to instill trust in the customer.
Trust is dependent on several factors which includes the salesperson’s attitude, choice of words, commitment to the customer and honesty just to name a few. It is not surprising that the impression of a common man on the street of a sales person is that of an unethical or untrustworthy one. How then should a sales person act in order to prevent this?
We are pleased to announce today the general availability of Lumension Endpoint Security (formerly Sanctuary) v4.4 SR1, which includes Lumension Device Control and Lumension Application Control.
This latest release of Lumension Endpoint Security includes: * Expanded encryption capabilities in Lumension Device Control to take advantage of PGP encryption keys as another access method for devices. Management is made more flexible and streamlined as administrators can now choose any combination of Windows AD users, PGP Keys, or unique passwords for encrypting and accessing external storage devices and CD / DVD discs. * Expanded OS support now includes Microsoft Windows(r) 7 and Windows Server(r) 2008 R2 (aka Windows Server 7), enabling organizations to leverage the latest advanced Microsoft offerings and support planned technology upgrade.
Sign up today with our Channel Partner's Program with Lumension and get the following benefits.
Free trial & NFR licenses to be used in your internal environment
Partners details & company logo will be visible from Lumension website.
Qualified Lead Allocation
Access to partners’ portal for sales & technical materials
Receive a Partner sales kit.
To know more about the Lumension Endpoint Security v4.4 and how to apply for our Channel Partners Program please Frank @ +65 6746 8696 or email frank@quantiqint.com.
