With countless devices and services all connected to each other without clear perimeters, verifying user identities and controlling their access to sensitive resources becomes more important than ever, but also far more difficult to achieve, says Hed Kovetz of Silverfort.
Improvements in behavioral biometrics and analytics are changing the way many financial services firms approach authentication. And more companies also are taking a "zero trust" approach to improve identity and access management, according to two security experts interviewed at RSA 2020.
Dell Technologies has agreed to sell its RSA security division to private equity firm Symphony Technology Group in an all cash deal worth more than $2 billion, the companies announced Tuesday. The news comes on the eve of the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco, which starts Monday.
Managing today's hybrid work environment is challenging, but securing that environment is equally important - and difficult. Ultimately, you need to connect your users to the right technology at the right time, in a secure way. To know that you're giving the right people access, you first need to have a way to know...
As an IT and security professional at an SMB, you likely manage more responsibilities than ever. You may be juggling many competing priorities, from the helpdesk to network maintenance to managing user access and securing employee identities. But what exactly is an identity, and what do you need to know to maximize...
This report analyzes the current state of password security, access, and authentication globally and steps companies are taking to increase their security scores. Organizations are making notable strides in password and access security - but there is still a lot of work to be done.
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Medical Center Hospital, which serves more than 50k patients annually, was supported by multiple vendors that used a wide variety of ways to connect to their network. This caused the IT staff of MCH to manage each vendor connection manually and with no method to track and report remote sessions, HIPAA compliance was...
If third parties are accessing your network, whether you're using a VPN, a vendor-supplied support tool, or a Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution to manage network vendor access, the limitations of those tools leave you vulnerable to breaches. But, you can't manage risks that you don't know you have....
Time for a fresh edition of "learn from how others get breached" focusing on Equifax. The goal is not blame, but rather to highlight specific missteps so others can avoid making the same mistakes. The Equifax breach offers a plethora of takeaways to help organizations better repel attackers.
Limitations on VPNs and other vendor-supplied support tools often leave you vulnerable to breaches and more than 65% of organizations rely heavily on third parties.
Download this report that highlights the top six reasons why you should prioritize implementing a tailored software platform to manage vendors'...
Twitter says it has fixed an API problem that would have allowed someone to match phone numbers en masse to corresponding accounts, which could potentially unmask anonymous users. The flaw could have been found and exploited by state-sponsored actors, the social media firm warns.
Conferencing service provider Zoom has fixed a vulnerability that - under certain conditions - could have allowed an uninvited third party to guess a meeting ID and join a conference call. The exploitation of the flaw revolves around guessing IDs for meetings that aren't password-protected.
Least privilege is intended to prevent "over-privileged access" by users, applications or services to help reduce the risk of exploitation without impacting productivity or involving the IT help desk.
It may help to think of least privilege by its other name - least authority - as it provides only enough authority...
Managing who has access to your cloud environment is mission-critical for IT security. Compliance is putting pressure on how organizations manage privileged access on these systems, which are storing petabytes of user and customer data.
Unfortunately, the nature of Linux makes it very hard to understand who is in...
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