* Also publishes whitepaper describing the security and regulatory challenges that organizations face
Come the end of this month and we’ll be moving Mission Saint Isidore of Seville (he’s the patron saint of computers and technicians. We like to spell it IsIDore…) from the San Francisco area to the Washington, D.C. area. Actually, it’s a return to the D.C. area that we left in 1986 to follow a career with these new-fangled computer networks. But we aren’t the only ones moving this month.
Come the end of this month and we’ll be moving Mission Saint Isidore of Seville (he’s the patron saint of computers and technicians. We like to spell it IsIDore…) from the San Francisco area to the Washington, D.C., area. Actually, it’s a return to the D.C. area that we left in 1986 to follow a career with these new-fangled computer networks. But we aren’t the only ones moving this month.
Just last week Courion moved to a new corporate headquarters in Westborough, Mass. The new facility offers room to expand as the business continues to grow, boasts a state-of-the-art customer training room, and has many other amenities designed to enhance visits to Courion. Yes, Courion marketing exec Rachel Weeks really thinks the new headquarters could be a destination for visitors to the Boston area. Of course, she also thinks the Red Sox can win the World Series this year.
In addition to telling me about the move, Weeks wanted to draw my (and, I suppose, your) attention to a new whitepaper on Access Certification.
According to Weeks, “A comprehensive access certification program is a critical step on the road to enterprise risk reduction.” Summing up, this Courion perspective paper describes the security and regulatory challenges that organizations face and recommends the best practices for implementing an effective access assurance strategy. With data from industry sources including Gartner, Burton Group, Ponemon Institute and others, this paper provides a prescriptive foundation for organizations seeking to improve compliance and manage access certification.
It’s thesis is: “Sensitive data should only be available to those with a legitimate business purpose to access it. With access to this data comes the responsibility to ensure that it is kept secure. This means making certain that only authorized personnel have access to it, and that their access is limited to the lowest level of privilege required for them to perform their business function effectively and efficiently.”
This isn’t light reading for the beach, but you should give it a look fairly soon. Risks need to be mitigated as quickly as possible. Remember the story of the barn door and the escaped horse.
