In Part II of a four part series, Michael Mongold, Director of Enterprise Technology for PasswordBank, describes the challenges facing end users as they are faced with more locations where they must authenticate to, while using more (non-Windows) devices to access those locations ... Read More

Hybrid Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) provides a clear path to reducing the dangers associated with cloud-adoption ... Read More

Last month, a British bank and its customers were hit by a coordinated and targeted attack by criminals that launched their efforts from Eastern Eu rope. In an impressive display of a blended threat, the crooks created advertising with malicious ... Read More

A few months ago, researchers with the University of Washington and UC San Diego released a paper detailing their "Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile". It presented a dark story where the electronic components of a vehicle, given the ... Read More

If you’re going to have security clearance at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, then you should know that anytime you step out of your designated dataset, someone is going to know. That’s why it is hard to believe that Brian Keith ... Read More

Jason Miller reports for Federal News Radio about the US government’s attempts to consolidate logins and potentially integrate current PIV card holders into a unified authentication and identity repository for accessing government services. It will be interesting to see where ... Read More

This is a nice primer for those who don’t know where to start when contemplating an identity management solution. As with most things in technology security, knowing the right questions at the beginning and formulating the right policies is 90% ... Read More

Beyond the technical complexities of Identity Federation, Thomas Smedinghoff explains what is truly holding back wider-spread adoption of federated identification models. “’Who are you?’ is a fundamental question for all online business activities. Whether a company wants to allow employees, ... Read More

From multi-factor authentication to single sign-on to user provisioning: identity management can be an incredibly broad and complex endeavor. In a great article, Drew Robb writing for GCN gives a high level example of why this industry is so nebulous ... Read More

After shedding their law enforcement division last month, it looks like Bio-Key's focus on straight biometrics is proving fruitful. From Bio-key: BIO-key Biometric Technology Selected as Part of the Next Generation FBI AFIS System “FBI Next Generation Identification Automated Finger ... Read More