Access policies not enforced

The Ponemon Institute and Aveksa have revealed the results of the 2008 National Survey on Access Governance, says Sarbanes-Oxley.

Findings gathered from a survey of almost 700 experienced IT practitioners show the majority believe employees have too much access to information assets that are not pertinent to their job function, and that access policies are not being regularly checked or enforced by their organisation.

These results suggest many businesses are facing significant business risks because of inconsistent approaches to access management across the enterprise.

Business are starting to mine Web 2.0 for economic gain, but many lack a firm understanding of what it is and what value it brings, says Australian IT.

Business strategy analyst Ross Dawson says companies need to take action to ensure their Web 2.0 strategies stay within corporate governance rules.

"Organisations such as Westpac and Lend Lease are establishing some governance frameworks, which will ensure people are able to use Web 2.0 tools and there are rules about staff policy, firewalls and security systems," Dawson says.

Varonis Systems has released DatAdvantage version 3.5, which extends support to Unix environments, says Sarbanes-Oxley.

Varonis DatAdvantage provides visibility, auditing and recommendations required to ensure unstructured Unix-based data is accessible for appropriate business needs.

There is still one single user interface for DatAdvantage, which now shows both Windows- and Unix-based unstructured data.