Loving your pet and creating tough-to-crack passwords should remain two distinctly separate activities. Unfortunately, Britain's National Cyber Security Center reports that more than 1 in 6 Brits admit to using the name of a pet as their password. And the problem is global.
We’ve gone from a remote workforce to “work from anywhere.” How does this create new security challenges regarding the broad and unrestricted accessing of cloud apps? Sasi Murthy of Netskope discusses the path to zero trust data protection.
2020 was a culmination of market shifts that has become a catalyst for the adoption of Identity Governance and Administration (IGA)—from work from home to the implementation of a zero-trust strategy.
In a new survey from Omada and Enterprise Strategy Group, 93% of your peers agree that the COVID-19 outbreak has...
Jeremy Grant, coordinator of the Better Identity Coalition, offers a progress report on the 3-year-old organization's efforts to help prevent breaches with better identity management.
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...
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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The average employee actively uses 36 cloud services at work. They want technology to be fast, convenient, and easy to use, and they’ll seek it out themselves if it isn’t already available. 77% of employees use a 3rd-party cloud app without the approval or knowledge of IT.
When it comes to SMBs, how might they...
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...
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.
Security firms Crowdstrike, Palo Alto Networks and Sailpoint are making acquisitions to bolster their product portfolios. Here's a rundown of the deals.
This edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of the impact of a hacking campaign linked to Russia’s Sandworm that targeted companies using Centreon IT monitoring software. Also featured: a discussion of CIAM trends; a critique of Bloomberg's update on alleged Supermicro supply chain hack.
Any successful IAM initiative needs to incorporate Least Privilege Access. This means only granting minimum rights to perform specific functions. Proper implementation ensures adherence to role-based access controls across critical infrastructure resources. Any written IAM policies that can’t be enforced become...
Organizations continue to rapidly migrate business applications from datacenters to the cloud, utilizing new technologies such as serverless, containers, and machine learning to benefit from increased efficiency, better scalability, and faster deployments from cloud computing.
The 2020 AWS Cloud Security Report is...
Biometrics, device-based risk scoring solutions and geo location can be helpful tools for tackling ID fraud, says Trace Fooshee, senior analyst at Aite Group, who calls for a layered approach.
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