The Security Ledger

MARCH 11, 2020

In this Spotlight* podcast, Sayed Wajahat Ali the Senior Director of Security Risk Management at DU TELECOM in the UAE joins us to talk about how digital transformation is shaking up the once-staid telecommunications industry and how his company is staying on top of both the risks and opportunities created by digital transformation.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 12, 2025

Breaking the Barriers to a Password-Free Life in Enterprise: Meet SafeNet eToken Fusion NFC PIV security key madhav Thu, 03/13/2025 - 06:46 As large organizations increasingly shift towards passwordless solutions, the benefits are clear: enhanced user experience, improved security, and significant cost savings.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2021

Meanwhile, 64 percent saw value in improving user experiences and 21 percent said it could help achieve digital transformation. Password abuse emerged as a criminal specialty shortly after the decision got made in the 1990s to jump start the commercial Internet using a security framework built on shared secrets.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Zero trust refers to the notion of evaluating the security risk of devices and users within the context of any given moment, without automatically conferring access based on credentials.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 31, 2025

Level Up Your Security: Embrace Passkeys and Phishing-Resistant 2FA andrew.gertz@t Fri, 01/31/2025 - 15:17 Celebrate Change Your Password Day and 2FA Day by embracing passkeys and phishing-resistant 2FA. Redefining Change Your Password Day Well start with Change Your Password Day because, frankly, its a little complicated.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 10, 2020

Related : SMBs are ill-equipped to deal with cyber threats Without a cohesive cybersecurity framework, SMBs are falling further behind as digital transformation, or DX, ramps up. Embracing digital transformation becomes even more of a challenge without a dedicated platform to address vulnerabilities. That’s our goal.”

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 31, 2022

Advanced VM tools and practices are rapidly emerging to help companies mitigate a sprawling array of security flaws spinning out of digital transformation. Digital transformation has spawned a cascade of nuanced, abstract vulnerabilities – and they’re everywhere. That’s changing — dramatically.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

NCSC said the technical controls refresh reflects the impact of digital transformation, adoption of cloud services, and move to home/hybrid working on current working and cybersecurity norms. The update includes revisions surrounding the use of cloud services, multi-factor authentication (MFA), and password management.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 5, 2021

Credential stuffing fraud, which refers to automated sifting through volumes of stolen data to arrive at reams of valid username-password matches, continues to provide fraudsters with valid credentials to compromise and abuse these accounts be a successful attack tactic despite increased detection.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2018

We’re undergoing digital transformation , ladies and gentlemen. LW: Can you frame what’s going on with identities when it comes to digital transformation? The actors on digitally transformed networks come from two realms: people and machines. Here are excerpts edited for clarity and length. Hudson: Sure.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 14, 2021

Due to the remote work boom and accelerated digital transformation projects, many of those conversations and exchanges are online. It is designed to accommodate a dissolving perimeter and hybrid IT infrastructures resulting from digital transformation and cloud migration projects. MFA should not be limited to login.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 14, 2020

In one sense, digital transformation is all about machines. Here are excerpts, edited for clarity and length: LW: Can you frame the top challenges businesses face as digital transformation accelerates? Hudson: The world as we once knew it is becoming digitalized. Everything.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A pair of malicious activities have become a stunning example of digital transformation – unfortunately on the darknet. Thanks to botnets, if you’ve ever patronized any of the hacked enterprises, your personal data, including your favorite usernames and passwords , have probably been stolen several times over.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report advises organizations to deploy multifactor authentication throughout all systems and discourage password reuse. Established in 2013, the FIDO alliance is an open industry association focused on developing authentication standards to help reduce the world’s over-dependency on passwords.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

The challenge of embracing digital transformation while also quelling the accompanying cyber risks has never been greater for small- and mid-sized businesses. What SMBs really want and can use are basic PAM modules like password vaulting, password rotation and account discovery that are well-executed.”.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 21, 2024

For too long, Identity and Access Management (IAM) has played a background role—a fundamental but ‘invisible’ part of digital transformation. Digital Twins: What’s IAM got to do with it? How can your organization finally get rid of the password headache? What’s happening with digital identity wallets?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 5, 2023

Strengthening password practices Weak or default passwords are an easily avoidable security risk that can expose vital assets in the agricultural sector to cyber threats. Arguably, even now, people have poor habits when it comes to password security. Therefore, agricultural organizations need to make passwords stronger.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

This is the dark side of digital transformation. The attacker managed to insert attack code into a zip file contained in a password-protected email message – one that the banker was expecting to receive from the attorney. These legacy databases were siloed and well-protected; there was one door in and one door out.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2022

We now expect to have a frictionless experience with companies as they remember our preferences and make it easy to login without re-entering our password every time we need to buy more orange juice or want to order dinner. The way we interact with the companies we buy from has changed dramatically.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The safe handling of private data, including passwords, and other credentials, is known as secrets management. Among respondents who cited cloud/DevSecOps as a top source of emerging security concern, 61% identified secrets management as a top DevSecOps challenge. Let’s look at the role of secrets management for financial services.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2018

There’s a temptation to dismiss it as a mere nuisance; companies deep into ‘digital transformation,’ in particular, might be lulled into this sort of apathy. We live in an era of breaches and every breach usually results in data leaks, including a lot of logons and passwords. This is called credential stuffing.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Go Beyond FIDO Standards: Best Practices When Deploying FIDO Security Keys in Enterprise madhav Thu, 02/20/2025 - 06:22 Initially designed for the consumer market, the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) standard aims to replace passwords with more secure authentication methods for online services. While recent versions, like FIDO2.1,

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2025

AI-powered social engineering makes scams more convincing, while stolen passwords enable criminals to log into corporate networks and move laterally unnoticed. But unlike passwords, biometric data cant be changed if stolen. Are We Sacrificing Safety for Simplicity? But at what cost?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Robust access controls such as those listed by CISA in their Cybersecurity Awareness Month advice (multi-factor authentication and strong passwords) and more advanced techniques such as passwordless authentication and passkeys help limit potential exposure in case of compromised credentials or insider threats.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Breaking Free from Passwords: Passkeys and the Future of Digital Services josh.pearson@t… Mon, 09/02/2024 - 15:14 As passkeys offer a more secure and convenient way to authenticate users, it is no surprise that industry experts agree that they will become the standard authentication method used worldwide.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The attackers have a vast, pliable attack surface to bombard: essentially all of the externally-facing web apps, mobile apps and API services that organizations are increasingly embracing, in order to stay in step with digital transformation. Botnets can test stolen usernames and passwords at scale.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2022

As digital transformation is advancing and automation is becoming an essential component of modern enterprises, collaboration between humans and machines is crucial. While people need usernames and passwords to identify themselves, machines also need to identify themselves to one another.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

But many fail to grasp that the digital transformation, remote work, automation, and cloud migration activities of the last few years have turbocharged the number of identities seeking access to data and critical business systems. Most companies now recognize the serious and insidious nature of cybersecurity threats.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2018

Silverfort has introduced new technology that is designed to help corporations address unprecedented authentication exposures spinning out of ‘digital transformation.’. This is what digital transformation is all about. Here are excerpts edited for clarity and length: LW: How did Silverfort get started?

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Microsoft cloud email server was missing a password. 3TB Email FAIL: Personal info of tens of thousands leaks. The post DoD Email Breach: Pentagon Tells Victims 12 Months Late appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Cisco Security

MAY 21, 2021

One key security trend that has enabled this rapid digital transformation for organizations is a zero trust architecture. Passwordless authentication also offers other benefits such as an improved user experience and lower IT costs related to password management. In case you missed it, you can watch it here.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Insure Risk is the Decision factor for Digital Transformation Decisions. Most digital transformation strategies fail because of a cybersecurity attack or having an unmanageable post-deployment operations model with the new disruptive technologies. Banking on Next-Gen Everything.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

APIs, short for application programming interfaces, have become a common building block for digitally enabled organizations. They facilitate communication as well as critical business operations, and they also support important digital transformations. Crafting an API security strategy is a complex task.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

A post digital transformation world. For years, we’ve been discussing how digital transformation will impact data security. Now, as organizations wrangle with security in a post digital transformation world, the focus is on the way sensitive data is stored and accessed.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 26, 2023

With such a diverse portfolio and digital touchpoints, how can insurers bring their brand and product suite together across channels for a secure, streamlined user experience? This is where digital transformation and CIAM come into play. Adding value to the user experience (a top priority for 59% of insurers) 2.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

What’s more, 99 percent of the IT pros said they believed their customers would switch to a competitor should they lose trust in the enterprise’s digital security. And nearly half, 47 percent, said they’ve stopped doing business with a company after losing trust in that company’s digital security. Baked-in security.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Retail’s great “digital transformation” sped up, as did the number of data breaches impacting retail. The 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report observes passwords caused 89% of web application breaches, either through stolen credentials or brute force attacks, making the protection of credentials a high priority.

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