Best Practices for Securing Privileged Accounts

New risk factors and compliance requirements are making mainframe multi-factor authentication a requirement for any organization that wants to protect its critical data.

In this session we will:

• Define multi-factor authentication, and what it means in comparison to other types of authentication
• Discuss the risks and rationale driving the implementation of multi-factor authentication
• Describe different methods for achieving multi-factor authentication
• Highlight vulnerabilities in multi-factor authentication
• Provide an overview of some of the regulatory standards and guidelines that require the implementation and use of multi-factor authentication

Attendees will learn:
1) Why multi-factor authentication is so important today
2) Critical risk and compliance issues driving the need for multi-factor authentication
3) Options for deploying multi-factor authentication
4) What to look for when evaluating multi-factor authentication solutions

Tracks: Security and Compliance and Security in the Enterprise