That thinking changed as companies rushed to bring their businesses online and realized their Web operations needed to be tied with their back-end systems. IBM has addressed some issues by upgrading its flagship e-commerce software, WebSphere. Donald Davis, an IT specialist for the state of California in Sacramento, says intrusion detection will be one of his primary concerns. For example, IT staffs must acquire separate tools for managing alerts and raw data. As a result, security staffers have a difficult time tracking the data because of the large amount oof information that's collected.
Share says traditional access control mechanisms, while still important, are no longer sufficient.
IBM has been bolstering its security wares via improvements to its Tivoli SecureWay Security Manager. For example, Tivoli not long ago upgraded SecureWay Policy Director software to handle PDAs and other handhelds. Policy Director software lets IS staff centrally manage the authentication of end users and ensure only the appropriate network resources are accessible to them. Kathleen Ohlson is a senior writer for Network World. Click to Download.