Author: Gary Thompson

Gary Thompson is a 35 year veteran of the PR industry. He was the president of Shandwick International, the world’s largest agency with 2000 people in 90 offices and 32 countries. A million mile flyer on both American and United, he got off the road at the “encouragement” of his wife. Four years ago, he founded his own firm, Clarity Communications, which counts Avatier as one its most successful clients.

Finessing NIST SP 800-53 — Earn the Confidence of Your Compliance Auditor

Finessing NIST SP 800-53 — Earn the Confidence of Your Compliance Auditor
  • August 15, 2013 //
  • Gary Thompson

  • NIST SP 800-53 compliance auditor. It’s widely acknowledged that NIST SP 800-53 cyber security guidelines are confusing and overwhelming — it’s universally challenging to make heads or tails of the…read more →

IAM and User Provisioning: Conquering the Convergence of Customer Concerns and Compliance Management

IAM and User Provisioning: Conquering the Convergence of Customer Concerns and Compliance Management
  • August 13, 2013 //
  • Gary Thompson

  • User provisioning mountain top. Banking, government and health care — how are these market sectors alike? For starters, organizations operating in these verticals possess deep and comprehensive personal information from their…read more →

Better Enterprise Risk Management: Keep Your Priorities Straight with Balanced Scorecard Software

Better Enterprise Risk Management: Keep Your Priorities Straight with Balanced Scorecard Software
  • August 8, 2013 //
  • Gary Thompson

  • Balanced scorecard alignment. If you’re in charge of information security risk management for your organization, you know that the process is a study in trade-offs. You have to deal with…read more →

Charm the Compliance Auditor: Getting Hip to HIPAA HITECH Compliance

Charm the Compliance Auditor: Getting Hip to HIPAA HITECH Compliance
  • August 1, 2013 //
  • Gary Thompson

  • Never ending HIPAA HITECH compliance management. If you dread meeting with the HIPAA HITECH compliance auditor you’re in good company. It’s just such tedious and time consuming work to pull together…read more →

User Provisioning Unraveled — Untangle the Mess with Access Management Integration

User Provisioning Unraveled — Untangle the Mess with Access Management Integration
  • July 31, 2013 //
  • Gary Thompson

  • User provisioning and access management system. With scores of folks navigating your networks, is your IT department keeping a handle on who’s accessing proprietary data? There are so many user…read more →

Help Desk Horrors: Why Enterprise Password Management Must Be Automated

Help Desk Horrors: Why Enterprise Password Management Must Be Automated
  • July 25, 2013 //
  • Gary Thompson

  • Classic access management software. The SANS 2013 Help Desk Security and Privacy Survey revealed nearly half of enterprise Help Desks operate with serious gaps in security controls — a full…read more →

Data in Danger: Leverage an Automatic Password Reset Tool to Protect Privacy

Data in Danger: Leverage an Automatic Password Reset Tool to Protect Privacy
  • July 23, 2013 //
  • Gary Thompson

  • Automatic password reset tools. Smart companies and agencies know that information security is a cornerstone of trust and that effective password management is the first line of defense against breach.…read more →

Compliance Management: From a Thorn in Your Side to Easy as Pie

Compliance Management: From a Thorn in Your Side to Easy as Pie
  • July 18, 2013 //
  • Gary Thompson

  • A compliance management software delicacy. As organizations go digital, security standards and requirements are evolving to address risk to enterprise systems and the vital data contained within them. The complexity…read more →

The Perpetual IT Audit: Hop Off the Hamster Wheel with Identity and Access Management Software

The Perpetual IT Audit: Hop Off the Hamster Wheel with Identity and Access Management Software
  • July 9, 2013 //
  • Gary Thompson

  • Identity and access management controls. Access certification audits are aggravating for everyone — gathering system entitlement information, explaining the process to approvers and then documenting exceptions to achieve compliance governance…read more →