Organizations are adopting AI agents faster than most identity and security teams can inventory, govern, or monitor them. These agents authenticate into systems, access sensitive data, and take actions across cloud and SaaS environments, often with broad privileges and limited oversight. The result: a rapidly expanding identity attack surface that traditional security ... Read More

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) points out that password-based authentication is no longer keeping us secure. To prevent password theft, modern platforms use familiar tactics such as requiring “complex” passwords that are frequently changed. Unfortunately, these cumbersome tactics backfire. Users work around them. They select passwords ... Read More

When we think of identity luminaries, we often think of people who have spent their careers building or designing digital identity technologies. But what about the people who take the technology out of the lab and make it work in the real world - where it matters most? These people ... Read More

Zero Trust. It has become a buzzword used throughout the identity, security, and networking space. The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent rise of remote work and life has catapulted Zero Trust into the consciousness of the C-Suite, while at the same time giving security practitioners a larger megaphone to tout ... Read More

Our first two guests on the Identity Brief Podcast came to identity through unconventional means. Ori Eisen saw digital identity and passwordless authentication as a way to fight the fraud he had witnessed while working at a large bank. Ari Jacoby realized that contextual identity and authentication data was a ... Read More

I watched the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing about ransomware called “America Under Cyber Siege: Preventing and Responding to Ransomware Attacks” with mixed emotions. I am glad to see there are impressive, dedicated professionals like those who testified before the committee on the case, focusing on the areas where additional legislation ... Read More

We just launched the Identity Brief: a podcast dedicated to exploring the world of identity. In episode 1, our guest Ori Eisen, CEO of Trusona, detailed how he found his way to fighting fraud using passwordless security. He reminded us that money goes to fund nefarious things when it is ... Read More

Earlier this year, the ForgeRock Communications team came to me with the idea of doing a podcast. There are other Digital Identity centric podcasts already out there, so I wanted to figure out a way to make this one different and engaging. It starts with my co-host Fraser Wallace. We ... Read More

So here’s the story. A nation-state attacks a technology company, leveraging a backdoor in a piece of software to infect computers. Then using the infected machines as jumping-off points to move laterally across what was previously thought to be a secure network, the threat actors take aim at targets of ... Read More

Results from The New Normal: Living Life Online Volume 2  We’ve been examining the significant changes in online consumer behavior to ascertain what companies should be doing to help people access the connected world knowing that remote life won’t be going away any time soon. Our first report, ForgeRock New ... Read More