The conversation around biometrics can be a complex one, taking in face verification, fingerprint and iris scans, voice recognition, and various other alternatives. For people new to the space, it’s been a tricky field to navigate - until now.
Drawing on years of industry experience and expertise, Biometric...
In today’s digital environment, any digital identity — whether customer, remote worker, third-party vendor, device or application — can become privileged under certain conditions, creating an attack path to your most valuable assets.
Unrestricted cloud console access, excessive cloud entitlements, embedded...
With perimeter-focused architectures quickly becoming irrelevant, enterprises are looking toward identity-focused security measures to protect new “perimeterless” networks and new forms of working.
Identity Security for Dummies is a primer on securing digital identities across the enterprise.
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A well-defined Identity Security strategy offers modern enterprises the peace of mind that their most critical assets are secure while accelerating business agility. But putting a plan in place that effectively secures the expanding number and types of identities can feel daunting. Where do you start? How do you...
In the past two years, the world experienced a significant shift in how many people work and transact business online. Digital identities used to connect remote workers suddenly became an even greater security target for attackers. Almost overnight, workplace trends from the last several years collided to create a new...
Zero Trust is not simply a different type of security technology or architecture; it is a methodology that provides a more comprehensive, dynamic and integrated approach to security. Cloud computing and software defined approaches along with maturity and interoperability across the technology ecosystem means Zero...
In ransomware attacks, cybercriminals attack through the backups because they know that security practitioners rely on backups to save themselves after a ransomware attack. Therefore, it is essential to have multiple backups, says Tom Kellermann, head of cybersecurity strategy at VMware.
As vice president of Red Team Services at CyberArk, Shay Nahari has an up-close view of an enterprise's soft defenses. He sees adversaries attack workforce users and compromise credentials. The lines between identity and privilege are colliding. More than ever, Nahari says, context matters.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of whether businesses are stepping up their ransomware defenses in response to several warnings released by the U.S. and U.K. governments highlighting the threat posed to infrastructure. Also featured are the Thingiverse data breach and airline fraud...
How many ways do U.S. businesses need to be told to lock down their systems to safeguard themselves from ransomware? That's the focus of a new, joint cybersecurity advisory from the U.S. government pertaining to BlackMatter, following an advisory issued last month about Conti.
A data breach affecting MakerBot's Thingiverse 3D printing repository website is far bigger than what the company has acknowledged, a former employee claims. Upwards of 2 million users may have been affected by the breach, which left their 3D printers at risk of being hijacked.
Criminal hackers don't break for lunches, weekends or holidays. Of course, that's just one of many challenges facing information security teams, as they attempt to maximize visibility and minimize complexity while protecting their business around the clock, says Peter Van Lierde, the CISO of energy firm Sibelga.
A Silicon Valley venture capital firm that runs a matchmaker service linking investors with startups exposed 6GB of data, including deal flow information pertaining to investors and startups. The exposure has been closed, but it's unclear if the company will notify regulators.
Apache, a popular open-source web server software for Unix and Windows, says it has fixed a zero-day vulnerability in its HTTP server that it says has been exploited in the wild. The path traversal and file disclosure vulnerability only affects Apache HTTP servers upgraded to version 2.4.49.
Privileged access management is cited as a major concern for enterprises moving workloads to Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environments. Managing identities with elevated permissions and cloud entitlements allows organizations to control risk by reducing their attack surface and mitigating the impact of privilege...
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