Security Services May 17, 2024

How a new wave of deepfake-driven cyber crime targets businesses

5 min read - As deepfake attacks on businesses dominate news headlines, detection experts are gathering valuable insights into how these attacks came into being and the vulnerabilities they exploit. Between 2023 and 2024, frequent phishing and social engineering campaigns led to account hijacking…

Government February 15, 2023

What’s going into NIST’s new digital identity guidelines?

4 min read - One of this year’s biggest positive cybersecurity events comes from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). For the first time since 2017, NIST is updating its digital identity guidelines. These new guidelines will help set the course for…

Incident Response September 13, 2022

We’re entering the age of unethical voice tech

4 min read - In 2019, Google released a synthetic speech database with a very specific goal: stopping audio deepfakes. “Malicious actors may synthesize speech to try to fool voice authentication systems,” the Google News Initiative blog reported at the time. “Perhaps equally concerning,…

Identity & Access January 7, 2021

Biometrics: Choosing the Right Option for Your Security

3 min read - Do you know who your customers are? Not their demographics, but each customer as they enter your online portal and provide their name, address and credit card number. Or, what about the customer who requests the right to be forgotten…

Data Protection August 21, 2020

When Your Heartbeat Becomes Data: Benefits and Risk of Biometrics

5 min read - Knowing who your users are today is more important than ever. This explains, in part, why integrating biometric usage into identity and access management (IAM) appears appealing. Throw in some artificial intelligence (AI) to help manage all these data points,…

CISO January 1, 2020

Make These Security New Year’s Resolutions to Bolster Your Cybersecurity in 2020

5 min read - 2020 is here. Toss any bad habits and take on new goals this year by identifying critical outcomes, defining key metrics and implementing your security New Year's resolutions step-by-step.

Identity & Access July 25, 2019

The Path to Passwordless Authentication Is Shorter Than We Thought

4 min read - The latest Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) data revealed that passwords are problematic. If that's the case, why are organizations so slow to adopt passwordless authentication?

April 17, 2019

Google 2FA Approach Turns Android Smartphones Into Security Keys

2 min read - Smartphones running Android 7.0 and higher can now serve as two-factor authentication (2FA) tools as part of a Google 2FA strategy to boost security across its online services.

Identity & Access January 21, 2019

Multifactor Authentication Delivers the Convenience and Security Online Shoppers Demand

4 min read - When framed as an innovative, even "cool" feature, multifactor authentication can deliver the security online retail customers demand without diminishing the user experience.

Identity & Access January 2, 2019

It’s Time to Dispel These Dangerous Password Security Myths

4 min read - Passwords are bad, and alternatives abound. But first we need to overcome the common myths and misconceptions about the password.