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. As businesses navigate digital transformation and evolving cybersecurity threats, the need for comprehensive PAM solutions becomes even more critical.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 18, 2025

Stricter requirements for identity verification and authentication across all patient touchpoints. Robust Authentication Offers phishing-resistant MFA options (e.g., Supports passwordless authentication for enhanced security without compromising user convenience. Mandatory encryption of all ePHI.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2025

Modern APIs Must Fight Bad Bots Todays businesses rely on APIs to drive digital transformation, AI automation, and seamless integrations, making them essential for agility, innovation, and competitive advantage. Thales Multi-Factor Authentication Solutions Use AI-driven solutions to adapt to evolving automated threats.

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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, standard (i.e.,

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 12, 2025

The FIDO (Fast Identity Online) standard has emerged as the gold standard in authentication technology, providing a robust framework for secure and convenient access. The newly introduced SafeNet eToken Fusion NFC PIV enables passwordless, phishing-resistant authentication across a wide range of devices.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 7, 2025

Phishing-Resistant MFA: Why FIDO is Essential madhav Thu, 05/08/2025 - 04:47 Phishing attacks are one of the most pervasive and insidious threats, with businesses facing increasingly sophisticated and convincing attacks that exploit human error.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2019

APIs are the glue that keeps digital transformation intact and steamrolling forward. APIs have been a cornerstone of our digital economy from the start. Today APIs are empowering companies to speed up complex software development projects – as part of digital transformation. They simply can’t keep up.

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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

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Phishing and Fraud Bad actors can defraud customers out of their money, financial details, and other sensitive data by using deception and social engineering. By using AI to compose phishing messages, bad actors can avoid many of the telltale signs that indicate a scam, such as spelling and grammar errors and awkward phrasing.

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Jane Frankland

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Cyberattacks and data breaches will continue to arise because of credential theft, social engineering (phishing, smishing, vishing etc), vulnerabilities in third party software and supply chain processes, forged or stolen machine identities, and misconfigured cloud computing. Digital transformation. Types of attacks.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 12, 2025

In an age where AI-generated content and manipulation tools are readily accessible, questions have to be raised about authenticity. Content has an authenticity problem Organizations face mounting pressure to verify the authenticity of digital assets ranging from corporate imagery to sensitive documents and media files.

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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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Jane Frankland

APRIL 17, 2024

When you think about trust in the digital landscape, what comes to mind? Is it the security of personal information, the reliability of online transactions, the authenticity of digital identities? Or is it ISACA’s definition of digital trust as being the confidence in relationships and transactions.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 14, 2024

A lack of multifactor authentication (MFA) to protect privileged accounts was another culprit, at 10%, also 7 percentage points lower than average. Among FinServ organizations, 73% have adopted multifactor authentication (MFA) to secure cloud data access, nearly matching the overall average of 74%.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2021

They outlined why something called attribute-based encryption, or ABE, has emerged as the basis for a new form of agile cryptography that we will need in order to kick digital transformation into high gear. As we press ahead into our digital future, however, we’ll also need to retool the public-key-infrastructure.

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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. Most breaches begin through phishing, or a targeted web attack, to get a foothold on AD.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The rise of such threats underlines the criticality of modern security measures like Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and identity verification. Building a safer, better internet demands more than awareness of emerging threats it needs a proactive way to secure digital identities.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Adaptive control, no trust, zero-trust, auto-remediation artificial intelligence, and content filter with multi-factor authentication aligning with your CASB deployment add in open-source technology, unpatched critical infrastructure, is your organization’s cybersecurity risks and compliance mandates protected? Time for a new perspective?

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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. SMBs today face a daunting balancing act.

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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. Retailers must comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which mandates the use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) to help protect customers from data breaches. Data breach costs rose from $3.86

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 7, 2023

Digital identities have grown exponentially in recent years because of digital transformation, mobile adoption, online shopping, and the shift toward remote work and digital collaboration. Assess your identity and access management framework.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

This means switching wholesale to other forms of authentication, which may leverage biometric data, PINs, patterns, and passkeys in place of passwords. With more and more platforms supporting passkeys and passwordless authentication, moving away from passwords is becoming easier and frictionless.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 8, 2021

With the world’s attention shifting, phishing emails preying on people reading the latest headlines led to nearly 200% increase in overall phishing attacks in 2020. Defenses in 2020 The rapid shift to remote work this year propelled digital transformation, cloud adoption, and securing it all with zero trust principles.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Digital transformation has already spurred an increase in demand for web designers and developers, and web development is one of the fastest-growing career fields in the United States right now. Phishing and spoofing attacks can be highly covert. Another 12% of those users click on the malicious attachment or link.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

Many companies in various industries have made digital transformations, as new and emerging technologies offer plenty of benefits. Email phishing attacks are a common method hackers use to execute leakware. Filtering and analyzing can prevent phishing emails from ever making their way into an employee or executive's inbox.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 5, 2023

Hackers can use various methods, such as brute force attacks or phishing attacks, to guess or obtain weak passwords and access sensitive information or control critical systems. Enforce multi-factor authentication on all systems. In the digitally transforming world of agriculture, this is not merely an option—it’s a necessity.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 13, 2024

Multi-Factor Authentication: the mandatory first step for organizations moving to the cloud. Any IT Security professional in charge of IT environment cloud migration knows: there is no way to move the sensitive digital resources of an organization to the cloud, Microsoft 365 environment included, without securing their access.

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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. How do we get there?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 8, 2023

Thales 2023 Data Threat Report: Sovereignty, Transformation, and Global Challenges madhav Tue, 05/09/2023 - 05:30 Despite the economic and geopolitical instability in 2022, enterprises continued to invest in their operations and digital transformation. However, the reported threat sources have been changing.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Whether manifesting itself in a sophisticated phishing email or as a calculated series of conversations between employees and seemingly innocuous or "legitimate" parties with ulterior motives, a social engineering attack can have dire consequences. Embrace the use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) as a baseline defense tactic.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In The 8 Digital Transformation Trends Shaping Business in 2022 report we learn that customers want intuitive ease, speed, and convenience; personalized omnichannel experiences that span physical and digital environments; and they demand security, privacy, and control over their data. What exactly are customers asking for?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

This means switching wholesale to other forms of authentication, which may leverage biometric data, PINs, patterns, and passkeys in place of passwords. With more and more platforms supporting passkeys and passwordless authentication, moving away from passwords is becoming easier and frictionless.

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 1, 2021

It’s been wild to see the digital transformations happening across all industries over the past few years but think about the progressions when it comes to social media. Governments need to tap into external ecosystems to support their digital transformation needs by working with the private sector and cybersecurity firms.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 30, 2021

Businesses have accelerated their digital transformation initiatives to an unprecedented pace, and they have migrated their services, apps and data to multi-cloud environments. This is especially evident in the surge in phishing attacks against cloud services, many of which have led to massive data breaches.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 28, 2023

Additionally, tests can be internal or external and with or without authentication. Most cyberattacks today start with social engineering, phishing , or smishing. While automated phishing tests can help security teams, penetration testers can go much further and use the same social engineering tools criminals use.

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