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Why you need a strong authentication platform

Network World

According to Symantec ’s annual Internet Security Threat Report , up to 80 percent of breaches could be eliminated with strong authentication. With data breaches and information theft on the rise, it’s becoming even more crucial to protect your data from unwanted third parties.

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9-vendor authentication roundup: The good, the bad and the ugly

Network World

Due to numerous exploits that have defeated two-factor authentication, either by social engineering, remote access Trojans or various HTML injection techniques, many IT departments now want more than a second factor to protect their most sensitive logins and assets. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Fed Tech Roundup August 27

CTOvision

Northrop Grumman M5 Network Security Wins Eureka Prize for Outstanding Science for Safeguarding Australia. Symantec takes on the Internet of unsecured things - GCN.com. Prioritizing authentication, GitHub attacked, Carter back to Silicon Valley. CSC wins $109M FAA cloud contract. FCW.com.

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Understanding the Security Risks of New Cloud Software

CTOvision

All information traveling between your company network and the servers of your cloud provider exists, if only briefly at times, on the internet, where it could possibly be captured by malicious computers. However, some concerns about cloud security risks appeared early in the industry and are still relevant today. Exposed Data Transfers.

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A Question of Identity: The Evolution of Identity & Access Management

SecureWorld News

It eliminates the principle that there is a trusted internal network—or the "castle and moat"—and untrusted external networks. In Zero Trust, all network traffic is untrusted. Zero Trust eliminates the "castle and moat" view and postulates that all network traffic is untrusted.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

For example, in March of 2016, two researchers, Mike Ahmadi and Billy Rios independently reported an astounding fourteen hundred vulnerabilities to CareFusion's Pyxis SupplyStation, an automated, networked, supply cabinet used to store and dispense supplies. So, it has access really unfettered access to everything on the network.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

For example, in March of 2016, two researchers, Mike Ahmadi and Billy Rios independently reported an astounding fourteen hundred vulnerabilities to CareFusion's Pyxis SupplyStation, an automated, networked, supply cabinet used to store and dispense supplies. So, it has access really unfettered access to everything on the network.