The SolarWinds supply chain attack should prompt federal agencies and others to rethink how they approach security issues - especially identity and access management, according to a breakdown of the attack presented this week by NIST and CISA.
The security firm Okta shook up the identity and access management market Wednesday by announcing a $6.5 billion deal to acquire the customer IAM technology supplier Auth0. Two other cybersecurity M&A deals were also announced this week.
New authentication models, including dynamic authorization and continuous authentication, that work well for consumers can be adopted for employees as well, says Thomas Malta, head of identity and access management at the Virginia-based Navy Federal Credit Union.
In this era of "work from anywhere," identity and access management solutions are challenged more than ever. What are the strategies and solutions recommended by top CEOs and CISOs in the cybersecurity sector? An expert panel weighs in.
As the healthcare sector works to provide patients with secure access to their health information via smartphones and other devices, it must address critical identity and trust issues, says DirectTrust president and CEO Scott Stuewe.
Identity and access management (IAM) securely connects employees to the business resources required to be productive. With the sudden shift to remote work, were businesses prepared to empower their employees to securely work from anywhere?
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Today’s business environment is anything but simple – and increased cyber threats just complicate things more. For employees to work efficiently and securely, you need to know who they are and what they need to access, so employees can connect seamlessly to the tools they need while you maintain oversight and...
The onslaught of account takeover attacks from insecure passwords is driving the rapid adoption of passwordless solutions. While the risk reduction benefits are substantial, eliminating passwords is just the first step on the path to fundamentally strong authentication. In the “new normal” era of work from...
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The inevitability of change compounded by an unprecedented global pandemic revealed that organizations continue to struggle with the tension between planning and investing in the physical access control infrastructure needed to meet the evolution of threats. This is among the key findings of the latest survey-based...
Security professionals have been thrust to the forefront of return-to-work planning as the crisis continues to create a complex set of security and safety challenges. Preparing to return to the physical workplace means adapting to new requirements, implementing new procedures and leveraging technology to alleviate...
At its core, Zero Trust aspires to eliminate persistent trust, and enforce continuous authentication, least privilege, and microsegmentation. This approach reduces the attack surface and minimizes the threat windows during which attackers can inflict damage, helping to protect against simple malware attacks to...
Broken object level authorization, or BOLA, vulnerabilities are among the most common and worrisome weaknesses contained in dozens of mobile health applications used by patients and clinicians, posing security and privacy risks to health information, says cybersecurity researcher Alissa Knight.
As organizations adopt more cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP and Microsoft Azure to keep up with the rapid pace of innovation, there is a harsh realization that traditional approaches to security and operations simply can’t keep up. In a world where dynamic resources continuously spin up and down, and may only...
Security firms Crowdstrike, Palo Alto Networks and Sailpoint are making acquisitions to bolster their product portfolios. Here's a rundown of the deals.
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