This white paper outlines the business and technical case for centralizing administration. Learn more about the steps to take with user authentication and access controls as well as how to provide accountability through direct auditing of user activities. 

Application security professionals depend on infrastructure teams to build a secure foundation; and naming and directory services are a prime example of where this holds true. This tips explains how Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), helps assemble a solid platform that applications can trust. 

You'll want to read this paper if simplifying your company's identity and access management (IAM) infrastructures are on your agenda. Directory virtualization provides new opportunities to move towards this goal by abstracting disparate sources of identity data and presenting them in a unified fashion. Read on for details and more information. 

A number of factors are driving financial institutions to re-evaluate their payment methods.  These factors include regulations such as Single Euro Payments Area in Europe, which calls for new payment vehicles for customers. Find out how one financial institution was able to meet compliance demands by utilizing a secure payments infrastructure. 

This paper describes how virtualization solves the issue of directory integration with an approach that is cost effective, non-intrusive, and easy to deploy. By externalizing identities into an interoperable service that can be accessed by a variety of applications, enterprises can deliver services to internal and external users at faster speeds. 

This document describes the SAP NetWeaver Identity Management products, which cover most of the core functionality for implementing an identity management solution, including a virtual directory. 

This article in our Royal Holloway Information Security series looks in detail at two key principles necessary for secure payments: fair exchange and non-repudiation. 

Explore the ins and outs of mobile payment collection: how mobile payment collection systems work, what components are needed for it to work, and how your organization can benefit by implementing its use. 

This Quest Software white paper helps you understand the questions to ask when choosing the best Active Directory solution for your company. Don’t waste any more time and money with systems that don’t play well together! Read this Quest white paper today. 

This benchmark evaluates Oracle Internet Directory performance under scales and throughput rates representative of those encountered in production use in both the communications industry and as part of large scale delivery architectures. 

As a result of increasingly dynamic mobile users and an expanding base of smartphones, a growing array of payment mechanisms is reaching the market to take advantage of the power and flexibility of mobile devices. Continue reading to learn how mobile payment is evolving in the US Market.