As computer software has become the backbone of modern civilization, organized cyber criminals, state sponsored cyber attackers, and terrorist organizations try to exploit design flaws and weaknesses in the applications in order to generate revenue and carry out criminal activities. The growing number of cyber attacks has become one of the most serious economic and national security threats our nation faces.

With the burgeoning popularity of online shopping and banking, credit card transactions are flourishing. Consequently, credit card fraud is on the rise.To combat this growing menace, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was developed.

The challenge for organizations from top to bottom is to provide harmony between silos of governance, risk, and compliance. Maintaining harmony is vital: Different roles — such as legal, risk mitigation, audit and compliance — have different and unique purposes, but must remain in tune with each other.

As the number and complexity of security threats continue to grow exponentially and the strike time continue to shorten, security organizations find themselves unable to scale their response using existing resources, processes, and tools. To overcome the challenges, the Chief Information Security Office (CISO) is adopting a "risk-based approach to security".

In 2009, the FBI began investigating a breach of confidential records from the State of Virginia's Prescription Monitoring Program. Hackers had allegedly broken into the system, stolen 8.3 million patient records and were demanding a $10 million ransom to return the data. 1 Earlier that year, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration had reported a similar incident wherein one of its systems had been hacked into, compromising the personal information of 45,000 employees.

Beyond these important benefits for SAP installations, CA IAM can provide important additional benefits to your enterprise. It helps reduce risk and improve the security of your SAP and non-SAP applications and data.

In one of the most controversial cybercrime cases in recent years, Gary McKinnon, a UK based systems administrator, was accused by the US government of hacking into dozens of US military and NASA computers between February 2001 and March 2002. Dozens of critical systems were rendered inoperable, US Naval Air Station files were altered and deleted, and an entire network of 2,000 US Army computers was brought down.

The US healthcare industry is rigorously monitored against stringent regulatory norms. The industry needs to comply with a variety of standards including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), International Conference on Harmonization (ICH), International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC), and Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).

CA Content-Aware IAM helps you respond to the key IT drivers above. It helps to automate identity-based security processes (such as user provisioning, entitlement certification, etc.), which increases efficiency and reduces IT costs.

In 2005, an American broadband and telecommunications company faced a major service outage in Los Angeles, California. A computer system's problem led to the corruption of the company's main software services environment. Over 150,000 customers lost land-line, Internet and some mobile phone and 911 services.

In 2004, Jeffrey Heer at UC Berkeley demonstrated a project that he had undertaken to analyze Enron's corporate email database. Using various visualization techniques and algorithms, Heer dug deep into Enron's communication network and constructed a tremendously intricate map profiling the communication between respondents.

There's a tremendous focus today on complying with regulatory mandates, keeping IT systems secure, and ensuring privacy for confidential enterprise and customer information.