September 10, 2015

Identify Theft Accounts for 75 Percent of the Top Breaches in 2015

2 min read - A recent report from Gemalto detailed the top breaches from the first half of 2015 and showed that identity theft is a prevailing trend in cybercrime.

CISO March 27, 2015

Governance and Consumer Identity Ride the Double-Decker at Gartner’s IAM Summit in London

2 min read - At the recent Gartner IAM Summit in London, three emerging trends were highlighted relating to identity governance, authentication and consumer identity.

August 11, 2014

IBM Acquires Lighthouse to Help Streamline IAM for Mobile, Social and Cloud

2 min read - Streamlining Identity and Access Management (IAM) for Mobile, Social and CloudImprovements in the digital community have exacerbated the challenges of...

Identity & Access April 17, 2014

Identity Management in the Cloud: Top Tips for Secure Identities

4 min read - With high-profile data breaches appearing increasingly often in the news, organizations must consider identity management in cloud computing services.

Identity & Access November 21, 2013

Is the Internet Killing Knowledge Based Authentication?

8 min read - Something only the user knows. Most of us have encountered Knowledge Based Authentication (KBA), though we might not have realized it had a name. Think back to a time when you phoned your mortgage or credit card company to discuss…

Identity & Access November 1, 2013

Top 5 Tips for Using IBM Security Access Manager and Federated Identity Manager

6 min read - This article summarizes five of the most useful and frequently used tips and tools for using IBM Security Access Manager and Federated Identity Manager. These are often references to content or advice that I've prepared in the past, but specifically…

Identity & Access July 29, 2013

4 Lessons Learned From a Security Breach

3 min read - The infamous NSA security breach reminds us once again of the immense damage that can be caused by a single privileged user with an agenda. Privileged users, with their unlimited access to system and network resources, can access and leak…

Identity & Access July 25, 2013

Dickens, Dostoevsky and Identity Fraud

3 min read - If you’re not a Dickens or Dostoevsky scholar, you may have missed one of the most interesting cases of identity fraud in recent literary history. On October 24, 2011 The New York Times published a review of Claire Tomalin’s biography…

Fraud Protection April 17, 2013

Behavioral Profiling: Finding the Man Who Wasn’t There

4 min read - Behavioral profiling can help catch cyber criminals, but criminals have developed many tactics to dodge these efforts.