Federation is no longer an option

In the past six months we’ve had more conversations with prospects and clients about Federation than in the prior six years.The technology is being widely adopted and is no longer a barrier. What is becoming a barrier is managing the multitude of user ids and passwords required to perform someone’s daily job duties. Or more commonly all these ids or multiple logins may be the reason a customer chooses a competitor to transact business with. Strategic business direction almost mandates that a move to a seemless customer logon experience is no longer an option. It will start costing companies significant business (if it hasn’t already).

It’s becoming clear, based on our conversations with clients, that a federated identity management model is moving up the priority list for IT management. And it’s being driven from the business side. If you’re in IT security or infrastructure, are you educated and ready to help move your company forward? Read more

Security as a Service (SaaS) Model?

For clients who have limit capital expense budgets, we’ve created a suite of services to help clients meet the challenge of limited budget and need to maximum security solution benefit. With services in log management, threat management, file integrity management, vulnerability management, wireless devices security management and 24/7 monitoring, we’ve effectively resolved eight of the most challenging Payment Card Industry (PCI) requirements.

Instead of spending several hundred thousand dollars and even more in additional personnel, and equipment rack space among other things to launch these products yourself, why not consider our SaaS model where for just a few thousand dollars per month, you get the benefits of a latest technology, reduced work for your personnel, and greatly improved security operations server.

In traditional outsourcing models, the customer gives up visibility and control to their inner operations. Not in our model! You can have as much access, full control, and visibility to everything that our Security Operations Center sees. We’ll just handle it around the clock!

Kneber botnet – update

Last month, our trusted partner, NetWitness, discovered the Kneber botnet, a dangerous new ZeuS botnet that infected over 75,000 systems in 2,500 organizations around the world. The full story is in the link below.

Kneber Botnet

And, we just received more follow-on information from an RSA report that shows most major U.S. corporations (up to 88 percent of the Fortune 500 companies) are likely affected by botnet activity from computers compromised by the Zeus data-stealing Trojan, according to the study released last Wednesday, 14-April-2010. For more information on this report, please see the link below.

Zeus Data Stealing Trojan

PathMaker Group offers a complete lineup of services and solutions in response to this serious issue. We can assess your network, determine if your systems are infected by Kneber/Zeus, and help you take the appropriate steps to remove it and prevent it from coming back. Call us immediately if you feel like your business is experiencing malware or worm attacks.

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