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Identity is Security: Starting with Identity

This week in security headlines, we saw a few more “bright spots” of awareness. For example, Miami Dade College added its name to that list this week by opening up The Cybersecurity Center of the Americas. The proactive, mass dedication of space and resources to addressing today’s cybersecurity challenges is […]

Do the Right People Have the Right Access to the Right Data, at All Times?

At face value, it’s a simple question. But it’s one that most organizations struggle to answer.  This question is a restatement of what identity is.  Yet after twenty years of various identity management platforms and approaches, many organizations do not have a satisfactory answer to this question. Right People To […]

Taming the Surge of Bots, Apps and Cloud Infrastructures

Organizations today are experiencing a surge of technologies including software bots, cloud applications and cloud infrastructure with the promise of improved agility, efficiency, innovation, and competitiveness. While each of these technologies drives inherent value to an organization, they also present new risks, which left unmanaged, can lead to severe consequences […]

The Power of Identity at Navigate Sydney ‘18

We’re kicking off Navigate Sydney this week ‘down under’ and this year, our event is bigger than ever before. In fact, our attendees enjoyed our conference in Sydney so much last year that they asked us for an extra day. So, we delivered! For the next two days, we’ll be […]

Identity is Security: Security has a Human Problem

We start this week’s security news roundup with the ever-present human factor. In identity, we know how present this is. We’re on the ground floor, seeing how much the human attack vector impacts organizations’ overall security posture – even when there are millions of dollars invested in security systems. Kaspersky […]

Throwback Thursday: Get Ready for Navigate ’18 in Sydney

The excitement around our second Navigate conference of 2018 is brewing. While you’re getting ready for two days of identity goodness, we’re throwing it back to some of the hottest topics that came out of Navigate ’18 in Austin. Don’t miss these posts to get your mind ready for Navigate […]

Addressing Ransomware With a Particular Set of Skills

It’s 1996 and Mel Gibson is refusing to pay ransom to his son’s abductor and his excuse, “I will get the best group of man hunters in this country and dedicate my life to tracking you down.” While true that life doesn’t always happen as it does in the movies, […]

Identity is Security: A Look Back at Black Hat

With the energy of Black Hat winding down, we had to take a moment to look back on all the news from the show this week. This conference brings a heightened awareness to security perhaps even a bit more than others. There is far too much to unpack from this […]

The Phisher Always Rings Twice

Who’s at fault when a phishing attack succeeds twice in a row? Guest Lemuel Williams joins David Lee and Mike Kiser as they argue the ins and outs of cyber insurance in the real-world case of a bank breached twice in quick succession—and a cyber insurer that refuses to pay. […]

Agile Security with Cloud-Based Identity Governance

Global Atlantic Financial Group provides retirement, life, and reinsurance products that help its customers to meet their financial challenges: wealth protection, wealth accumulation, income generation as well as wealth transfer and end-of-life financial needs. Goldman Sachs founded Global Atlantic Financial Group in 2004. When the company became independent in 2013, […]