From security and efficiency to performance, modern network and application infrastructure challenges are analogous to the methods employed by the TSA, and by extension, the good and bad experiences of travelers everywhere.
While the transition to passwordless security procedures is already underway, adoption is still limited mainly in larger companies in certain industries. There are many steps that can (and should) be taken to accelerate the authentication journey to make passwordless authentication mainstream.
While User Behavior Analytics is about a single baseline for each activity and an analysis of each activity on its own, User Journey Analytics looks at sequences of activities and learns for each user the complete set of typical user journeys in an application. This enables extremely accurate detection.
Credentials are everywhere, they are a demonstrated weak link in organizational security, and malicious actors have demonstrated that they prefer using them over approaches. As a result, credentials are both the best and the last chance to catch adversaries.
Developers have been increasingly targeted by attackers. Compromising a single developer enables attackers to embed malicious code into a company's products. If that product is then used by other companies, the malware can spread to their systems in a supply chain attack.
Mapping toxic combinations and implementing separation of duties rules doesn’t have to be a painful process. Strong, regularly maintained SOD controls can help organizations identify and remediate those toxic combinations in an efficient and straightforward manner, limiting the potential damage of fraud and identity-based attacks.
Cryptocurrency is increasingly being added to businesses' balance sheets because it helps to reach new customers, and it provides a way to avoid many fees. As with any financial asset, the question of how to secure it is moving to the forefront of the CFO’s mind.
BadUSB attacks have proliferated in the last year for a simple reason — they work as long as curiosity is part of human nature. The impact of BadUSB is tantamount to allowing an unknown hacker to sit at an employee’s unlocked computer and directly attack the network from the inside.
Security vulnerabilities in languages like PHP, Python, and Java may involve updating the language. The problem is that when a language level update is released, it traditionally does not simply address security issues – it introduces other, unrelated, language changes which may break existing code.
The holiday season is rapidly approaching, and with it, a surge in hacker activity. The massive increase in online shopping around the holidays offers hackers ample opportunity to deceive shoppers with social engineering attacks like phishing campaigns.
