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WHITEPAPER: Authentication Does Not Equal Zero Trust

Security Boulevard

Many vendor claims are unclear as to what they’re promising in this space, but they are quite insistent that without Zero Trust network architectures, organizations are at great risk for data breaches and other network sabotage. The post WHITEPAPER: Authentication Does Not Equal Zero Trust appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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NDR unveiled as essential when complying with the Executive Order

Cisco Security

Endpoint detection and response (EDR), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and the need for increased encryption, while implementing a zero-trust approach, were all called out as requirements within the order. Building and maintaining trust beyond the initial authentication is critical in a zero-trust framework.

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Post-Quantum Cryptography: Lessons Learned from SHA-1 Deprecation

Security Boulevard

Challenges toward post-quantum cryptography: confidentiality and authentication. The threat model for authentication is a little more complicated: a quantum computer could be used to stage a man-in-the-middle attack , for instance, and to modify aspects of the past message, like the sender's identity, retroactively. Crypto-agility.

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To Achieve Zero Trust Security, Trust The Human Element

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As such, this year’s World Password Day is in fact a timely reminder for businesses to drop passwords forever, and instead rollout access management solutions such as passwordless authentication. Micro-segmentation needs to be the default network set up and multi-factor authentication needs to become as common as a strong passphrase.

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A Spectre proof-of-concept for a Spectre-proof web

Google Security

We've confirmed that this proof-of-concept, or its variants, function across a variety of operating systems, processor architectures, and hardware generations. In 2019, the team responsible for V8, Chrome’s JavaScript engine, published a blog post and whitepaper concluding that such attacks can’t be reliably mitigated at the software level.