Blog Author: Davendra Paltoo, Offering Manager,Data Replication
With growing volumes, variety, and velocity of data, the challenge of protecting data continues. Every organization today is striving to protect its customer data and other data as the cost of data breaches are high. The 2017 Ponemon Cost of Data Breach Study, reports that the global average cost of a data breach is $3.62 million. The average cost for each lost or stolen record containing sensitive and confidential information decreased from $158 in 2016 to $141 in 2017. Despite the decline in the individual cost per record, companies report having larger breaches in 2017. The average size of the data breaches reported in this research increased 1.8 percent to more than 24,000 records per incident.
Security professionals are shifting their focus from device-specific controls to a data-centric approach that focuses on securing the apps and data and controlling access. Business, security, and privacy leaders understand that industry standard security practices have to be adopted to protect an organization’s data.
One of the reasons for security of data being compromised is when industry standard authentication mechanisms are not applied.
As part of movement to more centralized governance models for ease of administration and better security, organizations commonly want to centrally manage user credentials, security policies and access rights as part of managing access to their applications and data.
As a result, many organizations manage their user credentials, security policies and access rights in a central repository by implementing a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) compliant Directory Service such as IBM’s Tivoli, Microsoft’s Active Directory, and Apache’s Directory Services.
In addition, organizations also prefer business software to leverage these directory services rather than use decentralized, individually managed user credentials, security policies or access rights that could potentially be created for each piece of software deployed.
To help cater to the aforementioned security needs of today’s digital businesses, IBM Data Replication’s Change Data Capture (“CDC”) technology has introduced support for integration with LDAP directory services. Traditionally, the CDC Access Server authenticates users, stores user credentials and data access information, and acts as the centralized communicator between all replication agents and Management Console clients.
Now, starting with the IIDR 11.4.0.0-10291 Management Console and Access Server delivery, users can choose to have an LDAP server manage their CDC user credentials, user authentication, and data store access information to help users conform to LDAP based centralized security architecture in their enterprise.
For more information about the new IIDR (CDC) LDAP enablement and for details on how to configure LDAP with IIDR (CDC) please refer to the below links.
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