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Why Do Spammers Love The Internet Of Things?

CTOvision

The Internet of Things is the marketing term for those devices. Most aren’t the laptops, tablets, and phones we think of as using the internet: they’re appliances like routers, fridges, cameras, and a million others, each of which is equipped with storage space, an operating system, and a connection to the internet.

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What you need to know about Okta’s security breach

CIO Business Intelligence

The blast radius from the attack can be reduced by enforcing stringent segmentation policies. An administrator should define the policies for combining user attributes and services to enforce who has access to what. It is important to determine if a universal access policy is needed when users are on and off premises.

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The Self-Sovereign Internet of Things

Phil Windley

While decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials have much to offer the Internet of Things (IoT), the secure messaging subsystem promises an IoT that goes well beyond those initial scenarios. The follow-on post goes deeper into what a true Internet of Things founded on SSI can provide. A Self-Sovereign Internet of Things.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a permanent fixture for consumers and enterprises as the world becomes more and more interconnected. Weak authentication and authorization: One of the foremost vulnerabilities in IoT deployments stems from inadequate authentication and authorization practices. billion devices reported in 2023.

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Naturally Better Security: Leveraging the power of nature to enhance Internet security

CTOvision

Engineers in academia, industry and government have designed approaches to address these challenges, including mechanisms like Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) to safeguard and manage security keys for authentication and conduct encryption and decryption. The use cases for a Trusted Security Foundation touch every user of the Internet.

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Start your zero-trust journey with ZTNA over VPN

CIO Business Intelligence

And ZTNA continues to check both the user and device to ensure they meet policy to remain connected to that application. VPN networks have proven to be quite capable of securing traffic over the internet for WFA users, and those solutions are already fully deployed. Some organizations must take a more cautious approach.

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Addressing the insecurity of verified identities

CIO Business Intelligence

Technological advancements, including the internet, cloud computing, and 5G connectivity have made user/password identification obsolete. Many of today’s most popular forms of identity verification, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), are hackable. One popular technique is to exploit Group Policy Preferences (GPP).

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