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Enterprise security in 2008: Assessing access management

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If your organization struggled with access management in 2007, expect more of the same in 2008. The key issues confronting companies haven't gone away; remote access, provisioning and Web authentication will still be top of mind. Compliance pressures will continue to drive adoption of multifactor authentication. However, new technologies will add some excitement to the mix. In this tip, we'll review the access management landscape and what's likely to change as the year unfolds.

Let's start with a key piece of the remote access and endpoint security puzzle: network authentication for mobile devices like laptops, BlackBerrys, PDAs and other wireless equipment. For road warriors armed with laptops, the old standby VPNs -- both IPsec and SSL -- will continue to grow and dominate because of their successful track record, ease of deployment and reasonable cost, though SSL will still outpace IPsec.

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