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Review: Protecting API connections with Forum Sentry
The Forum Sentry API Security Gateway goes beyond access control and deep into security, monitoring all the connections that it forms between systems and enforcing very granular security policies.
Enhancing cloud security for AWS deployments
As organizations continue to move their IT infrastructure to AWS or other cloud providers, addressing complex access control use cases with dynamic authorization is essential.
The best IAM software: Rating the top 10 products
Based on feedback from IT professionals, these are the best identity and access management products. Download the free PDF report to see how they rank from 1 to 10.
3 IAM deployment models: Which will work for your organization?
Each of the identity and access management platform deployment models--on-premises, cloud and hybrid--has trade-offs and different resource requirements.
Securing IoT devices: Fortinet's FortiNAC automates the process
Fortinet’s network access control solution, FortiNAC, automatically discovers, controls, and enforces Internet of Things (IoT) endpoints.
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Improving access certification processes makes life easier for business users. But that’s not the point
When you do everything possible to make access certifications easier, you’re not just doing business users a favor. You’re improving the security posture of the entire organization.
Getting to know you: How continuous identity and access management transforms secure access
Better access decisions come from authentication solutions that work constantly to get to know users and resources better and better over time.
Risks associated with third-party access
Security processes to implement when dealing with third-party access to your company’s network.
Securing continuous deployment for applications in the cloud
Container orchestration tools lack the necessary security controls but attribute based access control (ABAC) can help.
Analyzing user behavior to stop fake accounts
Online account fraud is a big, automated business. NuData Security looks at hundreds of data points to identify malicious login attempts.
Strength in knowledge: How connected identity and access management transforms secure access
Connecting systems and sharing intelligence are key to fighting cybercrime—because even the most robust identity and access management solution can’t do it alone.
Sinovel Wind Group found guilty of IP theft, fined $1.5 million
While American Superconductor's data logs and stores were helpful in convicting Sinovel Wind Group of IP theft, a data loss prevention strategy could have identified the thieves' activities sooner.
Security versus usability a conundrum in modern identity management?
Convenience and usability vs. security when dealing with a valuable verified identity.
The great identity re-architecture: enabling trust and interoperable credentials
What happens to all of the consumer and employees accounts online that are created but seldom used? Today digital identity information is replicating faster than the plastic waste in our landfills and oceans, and the harmful side...
When your career is derailed by your girlfriend tampering with your email
Eric Abramovitz, a gifted clarinetist, had opportunity squandered when his girlfriend executed a classic "business email compromise."
Salted Hash – SC 02: What a TSB phishing attack looks like
In April, TSB (a retail and commercial bank in the UK) announced they would shutdown some systems for an IT upgrade. However, the upgrade was a disaster, and over a month later customers are still having problems. As a result,...
Here, there, everywhere: How pervasive identity and access management transforms secure access
When users are as likely to be working on the go as at their desks, and applications are as likely to be in the cloud as on-premises, you need identity and access management everywhere.
Why it’s time to break these 4 identity verification rules
Digital transformation of financial transactions combined with advances in fraud techniques are making these traditional approaches obsolete, as well as a barrier to online commerce.
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