In the latest weekly update, four editors at ISMG discuss important cybersecurity and privacy issues, including how to keep assets secure in the quantum era, when common usernames pose a cybersecurity threat, and how to strike the right balance between regulation and innovation in AI.
Honeypot data collected by CISO Jesse La Grew highlights how attackers continue to target default usernames - including for SSH - together with weak passwords to gain brute force remote access to their targets. Here are essential username, password and remote service practices for combating such attacks.
The crazy fluctuations in the stock market over the past 14 months can drive short-term thinking for publicly traded firms, said CEO Fran Rosch. A proposed $2.3 billion buy by Thoma Bravo would allow ForgeRock to think about the best long-term investments and opportunities in the identity market.
A finalist at this year's RSA Innovation Sandbox contest landed Series A funding to detect threats and secure access for nonhuman identities. The $25 million will enable Astrix Security to expand from managing access for nonhuman identities to understanding threats to services and applications.
Learn about best practices for privileged access management (PAM) in the context of how you’d secure valuables in your own home. In this episode of The Drawing Board, our experts discuss three PAM controls for guarding the pathways leading to the most sensitive resources in your house:
Organizations with a security-by-design approach need to go beyond being reactive to a proactive, offensive strategy to strengthen their security posture, says Mrutyunjay Mahapatra, member board of directors and chairman of the audit committee at Reserve Bank Innovation Hub.
As IT and OT systems converge with the adoption of Industry 4.0, the security risk to OT systems and IoT devices is high. To secure the enterprise, organizations need network segmentation tools to scan for malicious content across the OT environment, says Ivan Issac of OPSWAT.
Hardware-based authentication vendor Yubico plans to go public at an $800 million valuation by merging with a special purpose acquisition company. The Swedish firm said becoming publicly traded will accelerate Yubico's push to enter adjacent authentication markets and land clients in new verticals.
In the latest weekly update, Venable's Jeremy Grant joins ISMG editors to discuss how to defend against the increasing use of MFA fatigue attacks, takeaways from a recent U.S. probe into compliance issues related to Login.gov services and the latest updates on the Improving Digital Identity Act.
IAM has always been a manual process. While many organizations try to automate IAM, it is not easy. Pooja Agrawalla, head of IAM at NXP Semiconductors and winner of ISMG's Dynamic CISO Excellence Award for Women Leaders in Cybersecurity, discusses best practices for IAM deployment and automation.
As technology progresses, breaches progress and with hybrid work environments as the new norm, this means more devices are outside of the corporate network.
The question organizations must ask is how can users securely perform their work with a set of least privileges while preventing business disruption?
The...
As technology progresses, breaches progress and with hybrid work environments as the new norm, this means more devices are outside of the corporate network.
The question organizations must ask is how can users securely perform their work with a set of least privileges while preventing business disruption?
The...
The healthcare sector has long faced unique challenges involving identity and access management, but the novel coronavirus pandemic and various other key drivers are accentuating those issues, says Rebecca Archambault, senior director analyst at Gartner.
Passwords are supported everywhere. But, says Andrew Shikiar, executive director of the FIDO Alliance, "they have been proven time and time again to simply be unfit for today's networked economy." In this episode of "Cybersecurity Unplugged," Shikiar discusses how to move beyond passwords.
How has cybersecurity technology evolved, and are legal frameworks keeping pace with the evolution? Dr. Pavan Duggal, an advocate at the Supreme Court of India, shares his journey and talks about his passions.
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