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Why Password Reuse Makes the Case for Going Passwordless
Businesses and individuals alike are far from doomed to live with all the inconvenience and risks posed by passwords and the management challenges that they entail.
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12 Ways to Secure Your Business Email
Phishing attacks, which target your email, are skyrocketing, as cybercriminals are getting more sophisticated and better at what they do. Because of the massive adjustments that businesses, large or small, have had to make to adapt to COVID-19, vulnerabilities get overlooked, including email security. Secure your business email by adopting these best practices: 1. Run […]
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What Makes Small Businesses Vulnerable to Cyberattacks?
The average total cost of a data breach in the U.S. is $8.19 million, more than double the world average. Some of that cost lands squarely on the laps of small businesses, who are not safe from cyberattacks themselves. According to Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) calculations, small businesses account for almost one […]
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What Are the IAM Configuration Mistakes Businesses Can’t Afford to Make?
Identity and access management spells sound cloud security—provided that permissions are properly configured. If not, then a business is essentially risking its success, even its survival in the event of a major breach that results in loss of data, clients, and the support of stakeholders. Vital cloud services (e.g., Google IAM, Microsoft Azure Active […]
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20 Identity and Access Management (IAM) Terms You Need to Know
Forget buzzwords and buzz phrases. These terms are keepers, and knowing them can go a long way to help you navigate identity and access management for your organization’s systems and networks. Access management The processes and technologies used to control and monitor network access. Access management features, such as authentication, authorization, trust and security auditing, […]
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What Is Access Control, and Why Should It Be Among Your Top Security Priorities?
At its most basic, access control is a means of ensuring that users who are logged in to your system are who they say they are, and that they have been granted appropriate access to your organization’s data. At a highly technical level, Daniel Crowley, head of research for IBM’s X-Force Red, describes access control […]
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How the Digital World is Building Data Privacy
Data Privacy while businesses increasingly depend on computer networks and electronic data to maintain their operations, bulks of personal and financial information are transferred and stored online. This makes users at risk of privacy violations. Meanwhile, businesses and organizations suffer enormous liabilities when data breaches occur. Hundreds of millions of online records are exposed every […]
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How Does Biometric Authentication Improve User Experience and Enterprise Security?
Biometric authentication is a method of digital identification and authentication through physical or behavioral human characteristics for access to systems, devices, or data. It is one of the methods that drive both two-factor authentication (2FA) and multifactor authentication (MFA). Biometrics is one of the technologies that are being adopted as more advanced methods to address increasing […]
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Improve User Experience through Passwordless Authentication Enhances Productivity
An unproductive workforce can harm your bottom line. That’s the long and short of it. This is why you need to improve user experience. In detail, employee un-productivity affects overall organizational morale, particularly after poor performance and missed deadlines followed by poor customer reviews, loss of clients, failure to land clients, and so on. One […]
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5 Ways To Protect Your Company Against Hackers
How are you protecting your company? Most data breaches in the headlines involve big companies—Yahoo, Facebook, Equifax. However, while smaller companies are off the news radar, this does not mean that they are immune from malicious attacks. In fact, the risk is even higher as many small businesses may not have proper security measures and […]
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What Is Password Spraying, and How Can You Avoid It
In August last year, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), prompted by the advisory released by the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), advised the American public to be watchful of their passwords with the threat of a new form of brute force attack known as password spraying, which targets businesses […]
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How SSO Gives Users The Security They Expect
How many apps do users access every day? It could easily reach a dozen. From social media to leisure, online shopping, and important work-related apps, it is becoming harder to manage and remember so many login credentials. For both customers and employees alike, repeated login prompts are a hassle. It’s not a puzzle that so […]