Today’s authentication requirements go way beyond hooking into a database or directory and challenging every user and service for an Id and password. Authentication and the login experience, is the application entry point and can make or break your security posture and end user experience. Authentication is typically associated with identifying, to a certain degree of assurance, […]
Nearly all the big player social networks now provide a multi-factor authentication option – either an SMS sent code or perhaps key derived one-time password, accessible via a mobile app. Examples include Google’s Authenticator, Facebook’s options for MFA (including their Code Generator, built into their mobile app) or LinkedIn’s two-step verification. There are lots more […]
Identity Security – a complex, nuanced and yet equally dynamic, exciting and business enabling concept that has emerged in the last 3 years – yet still generates a great deal of inquiry discussion around what it is, what it isn’t, which vendors deliver it, what do they actually deliver and so on. To that end, […]
A discussion on the need to consider identity management as a set of life cycles - for expansion into the workload and NHI spaces.
Next week our founder Simon Moffatt will be speaking at event in London with leading customer identity and access management platform provider Transmit Security.
The event is entitled "The Fusion of Identity Management and Fraud Prevention" and will take place on May 23rd at One Great George Street London. The day long gathering will contain an array of guest talks from industry leaders, practitioners and consultants, discussing the rise of fraud within the identity life cycle - from account on-boarding and proofing through to deepfake authentication techniques.
Our latest community poll was focused on the ever growing murmur that many privileged access management (PAM) and identity governance and administration (IGA) capabilities are either starting to overlap, or dedicated solution providers from each world are starting to add in "lite" functions from each others feature set.
The Cyber Hut recently ran a 7 day community poll on LinkedIn asking which of four big-ticket items will organisations be looking at from an identity and access management point of view.
So in this respect how does a workload differ from a machine? Well machines will typically be host centric and operating system related. That could be anything from bare metal servers (remember those?) right through to more specific devices working in the IoT, industrial IoT, aviation, transport or medical spaces....
This four-day security extravaganza tours the world, and I attended the keynotes and briefings sessions on the 6th and 7th. Clearly this is a broader security conference, but as always the role of identity and access management appears in more ways than previous and often in slightly less obvious ways.
Machines are eating the world. Or is it software? No wait, it's AI. In someways, it will likely be none, neither or all. I don't think any will make us all extinct, yet automation, the use of machines and services (powered by clever software) will certainly be doing more for us as humans than ever before - as employees, customers and citizens.