Okta finalized an agreement to acquire Spera Security, saying the purchase will expand its ability to track risky accounts and access misconfigurations. Spera, a Tel Aviv startup, touts itself as a tool for giving security teams "real-time visibility into their entire identity surface."
CyberArk, BeyondTrust and Delinea maintained their spots atop Gartner's privileged access management Magic Quadrant, while One Identity, Wallix and Arcon fell from the leader ranks. Over the past half-decade, PAM has gone from being required for large companies to being an insurance prerequisite.
In the latest weekly update, four editors at ISMG discuss important cybersecurity and privacy issues, including how to keep assets secure in the quantum era, when common usernames pose a cybersecurity threat, and how to strike the right balance between regulation and innovation in AI.
Gartner positioned Dynatrace highest in Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision in the 2023 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability.
Observability and security are essential components of successful transformation strategies.
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Honeypot data collected by CISO Jesse La Grew highlights how attackers continue to target default usernames - including for SSH - together with weak passwords to gain brute force remote access to their targets. Here are essential username, password and remote service practices for combating such attacks.
Generative AI is transforming the digital fraud landscape and arming fraudsters like never before. Fraudsters are creating hyper-realistic deepfake identities, deploying targeted spear phishing campaigns, and orchestrating synthetic fraud using AI-generated personas.
Why act now? The urgency is clear. These advanced...
The crazy fluctuations in the stock market over the past 14 months can drive short-term thinking for publicly traded firms, said CEO Fran Rosch. A proposed $2.3 billion buy by Thoma Bravo would allow ForgeRock to think about the best long-term investments and opportunities in the identity market.
A finalist at this year's RSA Innovation Sandbox contest landed Series A funding to detect threats and secure access for nonhuman identities. The $25 million will enable Astrix Security to expand from managing access for nonhuman identities to understanding threats to services and applications.
Hardware-based authentication vendor Yubico plans to go public at an $800 million valuation by merging with a special purpose acquisition company. The Swedish firm said becoming publicly traded will accelerate Yubico's push to enter adjacent authentication markets and land clients in new verticals.
In the latest weekly update, Venable's Jeremy Grant joins ISMG editors to discuss how to defend against the increasing use of MFA fatigue attacks, takeaways from a recent U.S. probe into compliance issues related to Login.gov services and the latest updates on the Improving Digital Identity Act.
Zero trust principles and architectures are being widely embraced and adopted by the public and private sectors. Legacy security architectures and network defenses are simply ineffective at managing a world more reliant on the cloud and remote workers. Almost every attack today requires privilege for the initial...
Conventional wisdom now suggests that fine tuning authentication is an important step in protecting your organization. On the surface, this sounds simple. Yet, the reality is much more complex with a myriad of systems and methodologies. How do you decide what steps to take next?
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Authentication, that foundational control upon which virtually all other cybersecurity measures rely, tends to be a complex, cumbersome workload in the enterprise. Using multiple solutions creates silos – and ultimately inefficient administration, end-user frustration, and risk.
Contemporary enterprises are...
It’s no secret—hackers are after your passwords. Year after year, credential theft continues to be a top attack vector, yet organizations struggle to secure their credentials. Internal and external users risk being compromised when their passwords are shared, improperly stored, or used across multiple accounts and...
Over half of organizations have made changes to their cybersecurity structure over the last two years in response to this shift in business environments, but it’s barely moved the needle. The number of cyberattacks has increased, specifically through third-party vendor access, and businesses are failing to take...
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