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What is Zero Trust Network Architecture (ZTNA)?

Network World

Everything must be authenticated, authorized, verified and continuously monitored. The traditional approach to security was based on the concept of “trust, but verify.” A Zero Trust architecture doesn’t aim to make a system trusted or secure, but rather to eliminate the concept of trust altogether.

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The Architecture of Identity Systems

Phil Windley

Summary: The architecture of an identity system has a profound impact on the nature of the relationships it supports. This blog post uses terminology and ideas from Sam's paper to classify and analyze three different identity system architectures. In particular his terminology was helpful to me. Wikipedia defines legitimacy as.

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Check Point Warns of Hackers Targeting Its Remote Access VPN

SecureWorld News

In the advisory , Check Point says the attackers are targeting security gateways with old local accounts using insecure password-only authentication, which should be used with certificate authentication to prevent breaches. "We We have recently witnessed compromised VPN solutions, including various cyber security vendors.

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Balancing Resource Sharing in Multi-tenant Architectures with Single-tenant Services

KineticData

This article delves into these challenges, focusing on strategies to ensure security, scalability, and performance in shared environments. Understanding the Landscape In multi-tenant architectures, resources such as computing power, databases, and network resources are shared among various users or clients, referred to here as tenants.

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Architecting Identity: Five Essential Elements of a Modern Customer Authentication Service

CIO Business Intelligence

Traditional IAM, however, was built to manage internal employees, which means that the organization has control over connecting users to their real identities, birthright provisioning and device security. They may have a built-in user store supporting password authentication, for example. billion in losses.

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What you need to know about Okta’s security breach

CIO Business Intelligence

On October 20, 2023, Okta Security identified adversarial activity that used a stolen credential to gain access to the company’s support case management system. Traditional security controls are bypassed in such attacks as bad actors assume a user’s identity and their malicious activity is indistinguishable from routine behavior.

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More connected, less secure: Addressing IoT and OT threats to the enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

It also introduces new security challenges that demand our attention, especially as IoT is integrated into operational technology (OT) environments. 6 IoT vulnerabilities to watch out for Security risks are a significant concern for businesses using LoT and OT technology.