{"id":8964,"date":"2013-09-23T19:03:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T19:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2803442"},"modified":"2013-09-23T19:03:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T19:03:56","slug":"erasing-the-identity-blind-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/erasing-the-identity-blind-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasing the Identity Blind Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asserting control of the IT environment through collaborative and integrated identity and user access strategies create the necessary visibility.<br \/>\nSecurity is not an all-or-nothing proposition. And that\u2019s part of the problem. It creates blind spots; gaps in vulnerability. Partly because of the inherent complacency that after a company institutes a new security initiative that hackers will be held at bay, or the employees won\u2019t be tempted to make off with a database or a hundred other internal or external threats.<br \/>\nI have long promoted that security is as much about planning and process as it is about the various solutions that are deployed to protect networks, data, and other assets.<br \/>\nSecurity is no longer a wall. Stick up a firewall and your customer\/user data won\u2019t get leaked. Actually it\u2019s more like a sandwich.  And good security initiatives are like a good Dagwood sandwich &#8211; layered and integrated. But even the best sandwiches have holes (if they didn\u2019t, you\u2019d be eating a brick).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2803442\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asserting control of the IT environment through collaborative and integrated identity and user access strategies create the necessary visibility.<br \/>\nSecurity is not an all-or-nothing proposition. And that&rsquo;s part of the problem. It creates blind spots; gaps in vulnerability. Partly because of the inherent complacency that after a company institutes a new security initiative that hackers will be held at bay, or the employees won&rsquo;t be tempted to make off with a database or a hundred other internal or external threats.<br \/>\nI have long promoted that security is as much about planning and process as it is about the various solutions that are deployed to protect networks, data, and other assets.<br \/>\nSecurity is no longer a wall. Stick up a firewall and your customer\/user data won&rsquo;t get leaked. Actually it&rsquo;s more like a sandwich.  And good security initiatives are like a good Dagwood sandwich &#8211; layered and integrated. But even the best sandwiches have holes (if they didn&rsquo;t, you&rsquo;d be eating a brick).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2803442\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}