Identity and access management is not about compliance anymore - It's really about security, says Gartner's Felix Gaehtgens. With cloud, virtualization, DevOps and other IT trends, IAM has evolved from being a one-off project to an ongoing initiative.
Attention admins: If you use libSSH - one of the open-source flavors of Secure Shell, or SSH - patch now. The advice follows the disclosure of a vulnerability that one expert, Paul Ducklin of Sophos, terms "comically bad."
Warning: Attackers behind the recently revealed Facebook mega-breach may still be able to access victims' accounts at some third-party web services and mobile apps, and Facebook has offered no timeline for when a full lockdown might occur - although there are no signs of third-party account takeovers.
Security technology innovations entering the market are getting attached as features to an infrastructure that is fundamentally broken and an enforcement model that cannot operate in real time, says Matthew Moynahan, CEO at Forcepoint.
Intelligence adaptive authentication represents the latest advance in authentication and risk analysis - with a dose of machine learning - to help organizations authenticate users and battle fraud in real time, says OneSpan's Will LaSala.
Security thought leaders have long called for organizations to shift from a conventional "peacetime" view of cybersecurity to more of a "wartime" mindset. Aetna CSO Jim Routh now says it's time for enterprises to shift from conventional to unconventional security controls.
In the wake of digital transformation and several large, high-profile data breaches - and at a time where all the personal information is shared in the social network - traditional forms of digital identity verification are no longer valid.
Customers have zero patience for extra steps, and yet they expect their...
Traditional Authentication is not a standalone fraud killer. One Time Passwords, Biometrics, Mobile Authentication via PUSH or SMS, these technologies by themselves are being subverted by new attacks. 15 years ago, with FFIEC guidance, One Time Passwords reduced fraud by themselves by over half. Today, new forms of...
The FIN7 cybercrime gang regularly phoned victims, posing as buyers, to trick victims into opening phishing emails and attachments with malware, federal prosecutors allege. The group's success - 15 million stolen payment cards and counting - is one measure of how difficult these types of attacks are to block.
Data science is playing a fundamental role in a more dynamic approach to cybersecurity, says Jim Routh, CISO of Aetna, who stresses the importance of applying machine learning to front-line data security controls. Routh will be a featured speaker at the ISMG Security Summit in New York Aug. 14-15.
Alberto Yepez of ForgePoint Capital says cryptocurrency poses new challenges for accommodating the "know your customer" process of confirming that you're "doing business with the people that you want to be doing business with."
Spear phishing attacks are in the news again following the Justice Department's indictment of Russian military intelligence officers for alleged attacks against U.S. politicians and county and state election boards. Here's how to play better phishing defense.
Timehop, the social media app that resurfaces older social media posts for entertainment, says its ongoing investigation has revealed that an attacker may have compromised more personal information than it previously suspected over the course of a breach that lasted at least seven months.
In June, Maryland authorities used facial recognition capabilities to comb through 10 million images and identify Jarrod Ramos, the suspect in the Capital Gazette shooting, which left five people dead. One public safety official described the technology as "a valuable tool for fighting crime."
But what are the...
What are hot cybersecurity topics in Scotland? The "International Conference on Big Data in Cyber Security" in Edinburgh focused on everything from securing the internet of things the rise of CEO fraud to the origins of "cyber" and how to conduct digital forensic investigations on cloud servers.
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