Securing your E-Business Facilities
Telecommuting with Albert Chinamano
E-business is and will continue to be a powerful tool for
business transactions and transformation that allow companies
to enhance their supply-chain operation, reach new target
markets, and improve customer services as well as those for
suppliers and employees. E-commerce is now an important part
of modern business transactions, and presents an exciting
alternative to the ancient business models. Recent advances
in information communication technology have resulted in businesses
opening up markets and trading communities on the web.
Driven by increased demand in many industrial and consumer
markets some corporate companies and small companies have
moved away from the conventional trading markets to set up
the virtual markets on the web where they can interact with
their customers worldwide.
E-commerce has and will continue to transform business processes,
create unprecedented business opportunities, and require dynamic
innovation for e-businesses to sustain their competitive advantages.
But understanding and implementing a flexible, scalable, and
secure e-business infrastructure is the main challenge facing
virtually all enterprises and service providers today using
e-business as their cutting age. However implementing the
e-business applications that provide these benefits may be
impossible without a coherent, consistent approach to e-business
security.
Currently network security specialists has focused solely
on keeping hackers out using tools such as firewalls. This
is no longer adequate. E-business security means letting business
partners and customers into the network, essentially through
the firewall, but in a selective and controlled way, so that
they access only the applications they need.
To date, organizations have controlled and managed access
to resources by building authorization and authentication
into each e-business application. This piecemeal approach
is time-consuming, error-prone, and expensive to build and
maintain. Emerging technology provides a new role-based access
control infrastructure for all of the enterprise's e-business
applications. With this infrastructure, specialists no longer
need to code security features into each application. This
can greatly speed up and simplify the deployment of new applications,
cut maintenance costs, and give organizations a consistent
security policy.
This new access control infrastructure also lets organizations
implement consistent privacy policies and ensures that authorized
people are denied access to sensitive business information
sources. In addition, a centralized security solution lends
greater flexibility to supporting new technologies such as
mobile Internet devices, which have proliferated over the
last few years.
Besides controlling access, organizations also need to monitor
security events across the enterprise so that suspicious activities
can be quickly pinpointed. This is becoming critical as enterprise
networks grow rapidly in complexity and strategic importance.
New monitoring technology lets organizations consolidate data
from all their disparate security sensors--firewalls, anti-virus
software, host systems, and routers--and provides a coordinated
single image of potential intrusions for effective incident
response.
Today’s open e-businesses require a proactive, enabling
security strategy, one that encourages new levels of interaction
between business partners, while safeguarding online business
processes, rights, and content with standards-based, industrial-strength
security. Deploying such an e-security solution is the key
to an effective, comprehensive corporate e-business strategy.
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