As aerospace and defense (A&D) manufacturers balance agility and speed with the need for ever-increasing vigilance and security, they are also facing the daunting task of keeping IT systems aligned with their changing business strategies. This conflict of speed versus security is especially challenging in the area of cloud computing. The Department of Defense (DOD)
IAM has traditionally been all about security – but this is changing as businesses start to manage more digital identities, and as the IoT brings in billions of new devices For years, the two fundamental pillars of identity and access management (IAM) came to pretty much the same thing. 1. Identity: Is the person who
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking information on new technologies it can use to manage the sharing of missions across large constellations of inexpensive low-earth orbit satellites for the Defense Department. The distributed approach to networked satellites would provide “both redundancy and resiliency” even though it “requires much more complex management to fully
A successful implementation of identity and access management requires forethought and collaboration across departments. Companies that establish a cohesive identity management strategy—clear objectives, stakeholder buy-in, defined business processes—before they begin the project are likely to be most successful. Identity management works best “when you have human resources, IT, security and other departments involved,” says Shaw.
To thrive in this environment, defense contractors can no longer rely on a classic arm’s-length framework, in which a U.S.-based defense company, for instance, does business with a foreign country only as an exporter of products. Instead, defense contractors will be building closer relationships with more countries: assessing each market individually, deciding which are appropriate
The aerospace and defense (A&D) sector, which has long been a Wall Street darling, is facing a crossroads. For the last five years, the A&D Index has delivered an average annual total shareholder return (TSR) of 25.8 percent, handily outperforming the S&P 500’s TSR of 15.6 percent. But at a certain level, these returns are
Implementing identity and access management and associated best practices can give you a significant competitive advantage in several ways. Nowadays, most businesses need to give users outside the organization access to internal systems. Opening your network to customers, partners, suppliers, contractors and, of course, employees can increase efficiency and lower operating costs. Identity management systems
Identity and management technologies include (but aren’t limited to) password-management tools, provisioning software, security-policy enforcement applications, reporting and monitoring apps and identity repositories. Identity management systems are available for on-premise systems, such as Microsoft SharePoint, as well as for cloud-based systems, such as Microsoft Office 365. Forrester Research identified six IAM technologies with low maturity,
Application Performance Monitor monitors applications across multiple devices, servers, and systems, providing performance statistics and overall application health, while alerting on performance degradation and potential problems before they result in service outages. APM helps IT organizations measure and guarantee Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and assists in pinpointing application performance bottlenecks and points of failure. Each
The defence industry has changed dynamically over the past decade. Threats from conventional insurgent activities are no longer the only concerns for the defence industry. Advancement in the field of information technology, up-gradation of existing weapons with intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems along with increasing volume of classified data gathered systems have necessitated the usage