IT Security Guru

JANUARY 9, 2025

Cybercriminals weaponise AI to speed up and scale traditional attack tactics, such as phishing and password cracking, while also creating entirely new forms of cyber threats. Key elements in protecting against AI-driven threats include timely software updates, network security improvements and strong password policies.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 6, 2018

A common thread to just about every deep network breach these days is the failure of the victimized entity to effectively deploy multi-factor authentication (MFA) to at least make it harder for threat actors to access their sensitive systems. LW: What are a few best authentication practices companies should embrace?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 12, 2025

Breaking the Barriers to a Password-Free Life in Enterprise: Meet SafeNet eToken Fusion NFC PIV security key madhav Thu, 03/13/2025 - 06:46 As large organizations increasingly shift towards passwordless solutions, the benefits are clear: enhanced user experience, improved security, and significant cost savings.

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Cisco Security

MAY 21, 2021

One key security trend that has enabled this rapid digital transformation for organizations is a zero trust architecture. Zero Trust architecture falls apart without strong authentication to verify user identities. At Cisco Live, Duo announced its passwordless authentication solution. In Conclusion.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 28, 2025

In early May 2025, two of the United Kingdom's best-known grocers, Marks & Spencer (M&S) and the Co-op, as well as luxury retailer Harrods, were struck by sophisticated social-engineering attacks that tricked IT teams into resetting critical passwords and deploying ransomware across their networks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 31, 2025

Level Up Your Security: Embrace Passkeys and Phishing-Resistant 2FA andrew.gertz@t Fri, 01/31/2025 - 15:17 Celebrate Change Your Password Day and 2FA Day by embracing passkeys and phishing-resistant 2FA. Learn why these modern security practices are essential for safer, stronger authentication. Passwordless authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2020

First, the identities of any two digital entities – a sensor and a control server, for instance, or even a microservice and a container — must be authenticated, and, second, the data exchanged between any two such digital instances must be encrypted. What we’re seeing is pretty basic things around authentication.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Go Beyond FIDO Standards: Best Practices When Deploying FIDO Security Keys in Enterprise madhav Thu, 02/20/2025 - 06:22 Initially designed for the consumer market, the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) standard aims to replace passwords with more secure authentication methods for online services. While recent versions, like FIDO2.1,

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

NCSC said the technical controls refresh reflects the impact of digital transformation, adoption of cloud services, and move to home/hybrid working on current working and cybersecurity norms. The update includes revisions surrounding the use of cloud services, multi-factor authentication (MFA), and password management.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report advises organizations to deploy multifactor authentication throughout all systems and discourage password reuse. The combination of prominent media-reported mega breaches and less famous identity thefts have promoted the industry to adopt passwordless authentication methods.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 7, 2024

The new Badge Partner Program further accelerates the adoption and integration of Badge’s privacy-preserving authentication, enabling even more users to benefit from seamless MFA experiences across any device or application without storing user secrets or private keys. “We

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 14, 2021

Due to the remote work boom and accelerated digital transformation projects, many of those conversations and exchanges are online. It is designed to accommodate a dissolving perimeter and hybrid IT infrastructures resulting from digital transformation and cloud migration projects. MFA should not be limited to login.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Passwordless Authentication without Secrets! divya Fri, 10/11/2024 - 08:54 As user expectations for secure and seamless access continue to grow, the 2024 Thales Consumer Digital Trust Index (DTI) research revealed that 65% of users feel frustrated with frequent password resets.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Zero trust refers to the notion of evaluating the security risk of devices and users within the context of any given moment, without automatically conferring access based on credentials.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2018

We’re undergoing digital transformation , ladies and gentlemen. LW: Can you frame what’s going on with identities when it comes to digital transformation? The actors on digitally transformed networks come from two realms: people and machines. Here are excerpts edited for clarity and length. Hudson: Sure.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A pair of malicious activities have become a stunning example of digital transformation – unfortunately on the darknet. Significant changes to authentication models may be required to alter the growth trajectory of these attacks.” billion stolen username and password pairs circulating in the darknet.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

The challenge of embracing digital transformation while also quelling the accompanying cyber risks has never been greater for small- and mid-sized businesses. Related: How ‘PAM’ improves authentication. Password concierge. SMBs today face a daunting balancing act.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 9, 2022

Is the demise of OTP authentication imminent? Digital transformation and the increasing reliance on remote business continue to accelerate the adoption of new identity and access management (IAM) approaches and technologies. Historical perspective of strengthening authentication. Mon, 05/09/2022 - 11:22.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 2, 2024

KuppingerCole Names Thales a Leader in the Passwordless Authentication Market madhav Thu, 10/03/2024 - 06:26 The KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Enterprises has recognized Thales OneWelcome as an Overall, Innovation, Product, and Market Leader in the Passwordless Authentication market.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 14, 2020

In one sense, digital transformation is all about machines. Related: Authenticating IoT devices Physical machines, like driverless vehicles and smart buildings; but, even more so, virtual machines. Hudson: The world as we once knew it is becoming digitalized. Everything. We’re in the very early innings of this.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Robust access controls such as those listed by CISA in their Cybersecurity Awareness Month advice (multi-factor authentication and strong passwords) and more advanced techniques such as passwordless authentication and passkeys help limit potential exposure in case of compromised credentials or insider threats.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

APIs, short for application programming interfaces, have become a common building block for digitally enabled organizations. They facilitate communication as well as critical business operations, and they also support important digital transformations. Broken Object Level Authentication (BOLA). Broken User Authentication.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2025

At the same time, AI agents who handle tasks from data processing to decision-making also require identities that must be registered, authenticated, and authorized. AI-powered social engineering makes scams more convincing, while stolen passwords enable criminals to log into corporate networks and move laterally unnoticed.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Breaking Free from Passwords: Passkeys and the Future of Digital Services josh.pearson@t… Mon, 09/02/2024 - 15:14 As passkeys offer a more secure and convenient way to authenticate users, it is no surprise that industry experts agree that they will become the standard authentication method used worldwide.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 8, 2024

However, not all authentication methods are equally safe when facing complex cyberattacks. Deploying FIDO (Fast Identity Online) security keys within a business offers substantial benefits, such as improved security through phishing-resistant, passwordless authentication. However, sometimes, this is easier said than done.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 5, 2023

Strengthening password practices Weak or default passwords are an easily avoidable security risk that can expose vital assets in the agricultural sector to cyber threats. Arguably, even now, people have poor habits when it comes to password security. Therefore, agricultural organizations need to make passwords stronger.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2024

KuppingerCole Names Thales a Leader in the Passwordless Authentication Market madhav Thu, 10/03/2024 - 06:26 The KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Enterprises has recognized Thales OneWelcome as an Overall, Innovation, Product, and Market Leader in the Passwordless Authentication market.

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

It may seem like two-factor authentication and multi-factor authentication are the same. Also: Breaking Bad Security Habits Podcast Episode 150: Microsoft’s Tanya Janca on securing Azure and Armor Scientific’s CTO on Life after Passwords RSA warns Digital Transformation is supercharging Digital Risk.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 28, 2025

This could include: Usernames and passwords Authentication logs Biometric data Access patterns (what users accessed, when, and from where) Roles and privileges across enterprise apps CLOUD Act The CLOUD Act allows U.S. According to these new FISA developments, if a company uses an IAM solution operated by a U.S.-based

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 22, 2020

All it takes is one phished or hacked username and password to get a toehold on AD. Together PAM and AD oversee processes that assign identities to all humans and machines while also authenticating these identities for each transaction. From there, an intruder can quickly locate and take control of other privileged accounts.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

What’s more, 99 percent of the IT pros said they believed their customers would switch to a competitor should they lose trust in the enterprise’s digital security. And nearly half, 47 percent, said they’ve stopped doing business with a company after losing trust in that company’s digital security. Baked-in security.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

But many fail to grasp that the digital transformation, remote work, automation, and cloud migration activities of the last few years have turbocharged the number of identities seeking access to data and critical business systems. Most companies now recognize the serious and insidious nature of cybersecurity threats.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Single sign-on (SSO) is one of several authentication technologies aimed at streamlining and keeping login information and processes secure. It is often implemented along with multi-factor authentication (MFA) , wherein more than one factor of authentication is needed to authenticate the user. What is Single Sign-On?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

These criminals are usually after insecure passwords; therefore, the use of modern passwordless authentication methods, like passkeys , is a great way to prevent these scams from happening. They can also automate sending these messages to reach a wider audience of targets and increase their payout. but ahead of the curve.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Retail’s great “digital transformation” sped up, as did the number of data breaches impacting retail. The 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report observes passwords caused 89% of web application breaches, either through stolen credentials or brute force attacks, making the protection of credentials a high priority.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

How to Choose the Right Access Management, Authentication and SSO Solution. Not Everyone Needs the Same Level of Authentication. Not all security solutions are created equal and this is doubly true of access management and authentication solutions. Authentication is key to security. Thu, 11/19/2020 - 06:33.

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