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It’s Time for Banks to Release the Brakes and Accelerate Their Digital Transformation

Security Boulevard

Over the past year, like many industries, the financial sector has faced a range of both challenges and opportunities, leading to a decade’s worth of digital transformation in 12 short months. This traditional architecture serves as a barrier to experiencing the full flexibility and agility. Enabling the future of banking.

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NEW TECH: Silverfort helps companies carry out smarter human and machine authentications

The Last Watchdog

Doing authentication well is vital for any company in the throes of digital transformation. Digital commerce would fly apart if businesses could not reliably affirm the identities of all humans and all machines, that is, computing instances, that are constantly connecting to each other across the Internet.

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GUEST ESSAY – A primer on ‘WAAP’ – an approach to securing APIs at the web app layer

The Last Watchdog

One could make the argument that Application Programming Interfaces — APIs – are a vital cornerstone of digital transformation. APIs interconnect the underlying components of modern digital services in a very flexible, open way. Related: How a dynamic WAF can help protect SMBs. Tool limitations.

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RSAC insights: Malware is now spreading via weaponized files circulating in data lakes, file shares

The Last Watchdog

Lots of innovation has come down the pike with respect to imbuing zero trust into two pillars of security operations: connectivity and authentication. Votiro’s new cloud services fit as a pillar of zero trust that is now getting more attention: directly protecting digital content in of itself. But that needs to change, he says. “It’s

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Securing the edge with Zero Trust

CyberSecurity Insiders

The proliferation of cloud computing, mobile device use, and the Internet of Things has dissolved traditional network boundaries. This requires data-level protections, a robust identity architecture, and strategic micro-segmentation to create granular trust zones around an Organization’s digital resources.

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RSAC insights: ‘CAASM’ tools and practices get into the nitty gritty of closing network security gaps

The Last Watchdog

These gaps must be closed or digital transformation will be in danger of stalling out. CAASM is one slice of a new security architecture that’s taking shape, one in which companies begin to systematically discover and remediate security gaps – gaps threat actors are proactively seeking out. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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SHARING INTEL: Here’s why it has become so vital to prioritize the security-proofing of APIs

The Last Watchdog

This summer Gartner designated API security as a stand-alone pillar in its security reference architecture, not just an add-on component to other systems. A startling 95% of API attacks happen on authenticated endpoints. So much so that the OWASP industry standards group maintains an API Security Top 10 List. Dearth of planning.

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