Crypto Threats Surge by 500%, and It’s All About the Money
Previously reserved for early adopters and tech-savvy consumers, cryptocurrencies have gone mainstream -- with tech entrepreneurs and prominent financial institutions leading the charge ... Read More
Finding the Cracks in the Wall – How Modern Scams Bypass MFA
In my previous blog, I discussed the important role multi-factor authentication (MFA) plays in further securing access to enterprise and consumer services. We also established the fact that although MFA increases authentication security and decreases the risk of account takeover, MFA can, and is, being bypassed in the wild ... Read More
Finding the Cracks in the Wall – The Hazard of Single Authentication Factor
The use of authentication factors, one of the most fundamental and well understood concepts in information security, enables secure access to applications, services, and networks. It can affect an enterprise's security posture, however, as the drastic increase in data breaches and system attacks are largely based on compromised authentication ... Read More
Evaluating Our Core Principles
Reflecting on the past year led me to put together this post about how I believe this incredibly challenging year has had an irreversible effect on the way the workforce will collaborate, innovate, and do business in the future. In this blog, I will try to address what I believe ... Read More
Rethinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, Part 3: Strategies for Protective Action
Our three-part blog series, Re-thinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, has been focusing on outlining a new defensive edge strategy for today's enterprise. We began with a discussion of data and indicators. Most recently, our second post focused on using risk signals and correlating them for improved security controls. This ... Read More
Rethinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, Part 2: Risk Signals as Security Controls
In the first post in our blog series Rethinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, we began to outline why a new defensive edge strategy is needed for today's enterprise. As previously mentioned, the strategy enhances those in place and introduces another layer of defense that includes the following three components: ... Read More
Rethinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, Part 1: A Changing Landscape for Securing Users
In recent years, new enterprise remote access architectures and frameworks have been introduced, such as Zero Trust Access (ZTA). Those concepts have driven changes in the way the network perimeter has been defined -- specifically, from the outside in, not the inside out. Access to applications and services usually start ... Read More
Working from Home — The New Threat Frontier
The emergence of the COVID-19 outbreak dramatically changed and disrupted the normal routines of our personal and professional lives. It led us to stay inside and work from home. It altered our browsing habits from our corporate devices, and it ... Read More
Zero-Trust: Stay Safe While Working Remotely
A zero-trust security model can help organizations and their employees stay secure, no matter where they’re located Up until February of this year, working remotely was typically looked upon as a growing benefit for employees. The opportunity to work from home—or in a location outside of their standard office—was something ... Read More
Zero Trust Access: Santa Claus Wasn’t the Only One Working Christmas Eve
The days from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day are filled with celebrations. Many companies shut down and encourage their employees to take vacations. However, a sample of data comparing an average work week around the holiday, shows the idea ... Read More
