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What steps can people take to safeguard their digital identities?

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From utilizing MFA whenever possible to exploring passwordless options, we break down ways to safeguard digital identities. Here are some top tips that anyone can take immediately to protect their identity and data: Passwords: Use unique passwords that are complex in nature, for every account you sign up for. Multi-Factor ... Read More
quora 7

What are some lesser-known cybersecurity best practices that can help individuals and businesses?

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You already know to not share passwords. But what are some lesser-known cybersecurity best practices that individuals and businesses can implement to stay secure? Before I mention the less-known examples, I think it’s important to highlight some “common sense” cybersecurity best practices. You’d be surprised how often these go ignored! ... Read More
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How is automation evolving to detect and mitigate cyber threats?

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Automation is evolving to address cyber threats. Here's our take on how automation has impacted the stages of development, deployment, and operation/consumption of applications and technologies. The modern enterprise is a complex hybrid environment, with applications, servers, and in general, workloads being run in on-premises data centers as well as ... Read More
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How could artificial intelligence help in avoiding data breaches?

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Artificial intelligence powered security systems learn from historical activities, incidents, breaches to build their own models autonomously, without constant human supervision. As organizations grow further, workforce becomes global, diverse, distributed, and enterprises adopt new cloud, on-prem systems and deploy intelligent devices, the old model of static policies based on a ... Read More
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Are hackers changing up their techniques as cybersecurity advances?

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Hackers often don't need to hack, they go right through the front door by exploiting the basics of access. As cybersecurity evolves, so do hackers. Here’s the reality. Malicious actors don’t need to “hack” you or find backdoors in software code to get to your sensitive data. They’re much more ... Read More
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True Passwordless? Show me…

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Passwordless is more than a buzzword. Idaptive has been granted a key patent in Passwordless technology by the United States Patent Office: Zero sign-on using a web browser. Passwordless is a major security industry buzzword for 2020. I’m sure you have heard many identity and access management vendors touting their ... Read More
organization policies and data breaches

Is there a relationship between organization policies and data breaches?

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There is a strong correlation between organization policies and data breaches. Here we consider the three most common causes and how corresponding organization policies, if well-implemented, can reduce the attack surface and prevent data breaches. Spoiler alert - yes, they are very much related. Organizations that do not follow and ... Read More
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Why is identity and access management so important in preventing data breaches?

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Access Management solutions provide authentication and authorization services and enforce user access policy to a company’s employees and customers across the web, mobile apps, and other digital channels. At its core, identity and access management is really all about ensuring that a user’s identity is authenticated to a high degree ... Read More
IoT devices

Enforcing IAM on IoT Devices

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How can one enforce identity and access management on IoT devices that are less capable than typical compute devices, and yet render their network vulnerable? Determining the right device identity is fundamental to enforcing identity and access management in IoT devices. For instance, some devices may be identified on the ... Read More
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2020 And Beyond: Idaptive’s Predictions and Expectations for the New Decade

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Our predictions and expectations - Zero Trust, artificial intelligence and machine learning driven identity security, and password-less authentication are coming with the dawn of the new decade. The close of a year is a natural time for reflection, and when it also means turning the page on a new decade ... Read More

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