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| The triple 'S' effect By Eileen Yu,
CNETAsia
COMPUTER ASSOCIATES is predicting five key security trends for the year: 1. Passwords will slowly be replaced with strong authentication. Strong authentication will continue to grow as basic passwords become a nuisance for users and companies, and are slowly phased out. We are already beginning to see a rise in the use of tokens, but users will quickly become frustrated with having to manage an individual token device for each company they conduct business with. As biometric devices become cheaper and more readily available, we will see an increase in the use of biometric technologies such as finger print and retinal scans. 2. Anti-phishing measures using identity policies. E-mail phishing attacks will only continue to get worse. The SenderID protocol now has new life and if companies combine e-mail authentication, which validates the authenticity of the machine sending the message, with identity management infrastructure, companies will be able to gain more control over email policies. 3. Federated identity creates more customer stickiness. Federated identity technology will enable highly competitive industries, such as telecommunications and financial services, to better retain a loyal customer base. Federation is enabling these businesses to expand the services they offer by seamlessly bundling services from third party providers. It is also enabling companies to more easily deliver one point of contact to the customer for all of these services, regardless of who is providing the service in the back-end. Federation agreements will also result in greater need for stronger authentication as service providers offering high-value transactions will not want to assume liability. 4. Application and network security begin to merge. Historically, there has been a division between application and network security. Looking ahead though, auditing requirements for compliance measures and the continued need to become smarter about how companies approach security, will drive these systems to talk with one another and share common auditing and reporting processes. This will also enable audit and event data to be analyzed and correlated in real time to create self-defending security barriers. 5. Traveling identities become more secure. Proximity-based services and "traveling identities" will become a reality. Cell phones and USB devices are actually becoming security mechanisms, enabling service providers to know where you are--and who you are--and then deliver content and services based on this knowledge. -- Anthony Lim, Asia South brand director for security, Computer Associates International
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