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Companies are rushing to exploit the opportunities of service-oriented architectures (SOAs), clouds and other distributed computing models.
But determined hackers and disgruntled insiders are hurrying just as fast to find ways to exploit vulnerabilities in these models. The pervasiveness of these technologies marks a fundamental change in how the enterprise should approach three fundamental security challenges: Identity, Information Security and Application Security.
Every day billions of people are connecting to services of value, and to each other - and therefore identity has taken on a new importance. Applications are less frequently secured behind an enterprise firewall; more and more they are composites and mashups created from sources inside and outside the company. Transactions depend on the level of trust each party (whether human or software) places in the other's credentials. Yet without instituting policies, processes and best practices, that trust can be easily misplaced.
In a "cloud" environment these concepts become even more complex, as identity is not limited to users alone. For example, a software delivery service may be automatically invoked by an invoicing system, and that system must recognize the delivery service as a trusted identity, or the customer doesn't get their product. From accounting to digital health records and high-value trading operations, every business must treat cloud security with great care, and identity is the core principle behind driving these business operations.
What the enterprise needs is a common set of identity policies, practices and technology that includes multipurpose identity systems that can be used across service providers. Mocana's advanced certificate-based identity management solutions can help you accommodate complex identity relationships while offering a simplified way to address identity across the enterprise.
In 2008, a new threat known as "SEO Code Injection" or "poisoning" hit more than1.2 million websites, including those of some very high-profile companies. As the dust settled, it became clear that enterprise applications - especially those in the cloud - had become "ground zero" for hacker attacks.
Part of the vulnerability lies in the evolution from monolithic applications to composite applications. These composite applications can include application code from a wide variety of sources in a true mash-up fashion. Though composite coding has tremendously improved programmer productivity and even empowered many non-coders to compose impressive applications, it often results in security problems.
Perhaps the most challenging aspect of composite apps is the inability of the application to fully understand its own makeup, and therefore its own security posture, until it has already been deployed. Enterprises can leverage Mocana's security development expertise, secure tools and secure development platforms to make sure that security is an integral part of each and every stage of development.
Mocana’s products, together, make up what we call the Device Security Framework™.
The DSF is designed to secure all aspects of any connected device, computer or service. All components of the Device Security Framework are built on a common architecture and share a common API and cryptographic code base. Applications and device designers can choose the components they need for their particular project... or standardize company-wide on the DSF’s common code base, future-proofing your investment with this broad, flexible and extensible security architecture.
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