The clear message from this year's Global Password Security Report is businesses still have a lot of work to do in the areas of password and access security.
Businesses are increasing their use of important security measures like multifactor authentication - but unfortunately employees still have poor password...
The concept of "identity is the perimeter" is not new. However, COVID-19 has accelerated the transformation of workforce identity management, forcing organizations to navigate a new reality sooner than expected.
Whether or not they were prepared for it, more organizations are working remotely and utilizing SaaS...
Twitter says attackers who hijacked more than 130 high-profile Twitter accounts used social engineering to bypass its defenses, including two-factor authentication on accounts. Experts say companies must have defenses in place against such schemes, which have long been employed by fraudsters.
Multifactor authentication (MFA) is a critical security requirement for every organisation, regardless of sise and industry. But not every MFA solution is created equal. Not only does your chosen MFA solution need to meet the requirements you have today, but it needs to enable and secure the future growth and...
Today, organisations face the challenge of protecting data in more places: cloud, mobile, emerging platforms, and legacy on-premises applications. While you're fortifying your defenses, it's vital to realise that 81% of data breaches involve stolen/weak credentials.
Read this checklist to learn strategic and tactical...
You're moving towards Office 365 and you want true single sign-on for users. You also want to ensure authentication is directly tied back to the policies and user status in Active Directory. With Okta's lightweight agent, you can minimise your on-prem footprint as you move to the cloud. Zero servers and on-prem...
As threats to password security have increased in recent years, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has rapidly gained adoption as a method for increasing the assurance of authentication for consumer and enterprise web and mobile applications.
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The results of a survey displaying your peers'...
The world is on the move, and your end users are no exception. It's time to have a security plan that is built to work outside the perimeter. But what authentication strategy fits your needs?
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The pros and cons of 2-Factor (2FA), Multi-Factor (MFA), and Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication...
Andrew Shikiar, executive director at the FIDO Alliance, offers an update on the group's efforts to reduce reliance on passwords and discusses how to overcome barriers.
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.
An attacker's most efficient approach to a pay day is to land on a host and then 'live off the land' using the residue of errant credentials and connections left behind from the course of daily operations-cached domain admin credentials, disconnected RDP sessions, local admin accounts using the same password, and...
Emerging passwordless security standards, elevated consumer and consumer-like experience expectations, and ballooning costs have moved eliminating passwords from a theoretical concept to a real possibility. In this whitepaper, we will explore the case for going passwordless for both customer and employee...
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.
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