Implementing trusted digital IDs will create benefits for end users as well as service providers, says Nick Mothershaw, chair and executive director at the Open Identity Exchange. But widespread international adoption of such IDs will take time to achieve, he acknowledges.
Many ethical hackers and other security professionals, such as penetration testers, have weaponized cloud platforms to host online attack infrastructure or have used the platforms to conduct reconnaissance, according security researchers at Texas Tech University.
Emerging passwordless security standards elevated consumer and consumer-like experience expectations, and ballooning costs have moved to eliminate passwords from a theoretical concept to a real possibility.
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Organisations want their dev teams to roll out great new experiences that attract and retain customers while improving their lifetime value. However, today's end users are trained by the Googles, Amazons, and Facebooks of the world to disengage from experiences that aren't technologically advanced, frictionless,...
Account Takeover (ATO) - An increasingly common consumer attack method wherein a bad actor gains illegal access to a user's account, and can exploit that access for financial or informational gain. Every digital business featuring a login page is at risk of this method.
Cloud computing offers organisations the ability to develop new technologies in less time, with a lower barrier to entry. As security leaders in government and regulated non-government enterprises migrate to public, private or hybrid cloud, they require strong security to prevent data breaches, protect sensitive...
Identity and access management shouldn't feel like a catch-22. On the one hand, you want to allow employees to work as they need to, which is often on the road or at home, not at the office. On the other hand, not a day goes by without security breaches making headline news. And you don't want to be that headline....
The Internet of Things (IoT) is opening up new opportunities for businesses and consumers, and is the linchpin of almost every digital transformation initiative. However, IoT also presents considerable security risks and challenges for organisations, specifically attackers impersonating a trusted device could conduct...
Even after being notified that their personal data has been compromised in a breach, only about a third of users change their passwords - and most are not strong or unique, according to a study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, who call for changes in breach notification procedures.
The massive shift to remote working as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic means more organizations are adopting the "zero trust" model, taking such steps as implementing proper access controls, monitoring user behavior and building data governance policies.
"Passwordless authentication" is one of the hot cybersecurity topics, but who's actually implemented it - and how? Jeff Carpenter of HID Global discusses the business benefits and the future of passwordless authentication.
Carpenter, the director of identity and access management solutions at HID Global, starts with...
Security experts and law enforcement officials have long argued that paying ransoms doesn't pay. For starters, it directly funds the cybercrime ecosystem and makes it attractive for criminals to keep launching ransomware attacks.
As Gartner says in their CARTA approach to fraud prevention, "without combining the perspectives of varying capabilities and coordinating a response, cracks remain for fraudsters to slip through."
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Zero Trust security throws away the idea that we should have a "trusted" internal network and an "untrusted" external network. The adoption of mobile and cloud means that we can no longer have a network perimeter-centric view of security; instead, we need to securely enable access for the various users (employees,...
CDO Technologies is charged with moving the entire Human Resources (A1) data center for the U.S. Air Force to the cloud, including 33 systems, 200 applications, and 5 million users. Due to their extensive experience, industry expertise, and proven capability, CDO chose Okta to assist with security, user experience,...
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