03.26.2018 - Privileged Access Management 101
Privileged access management solutions will be beneficial if you use them correctly. This includes: ...
03.22.2018 - Identity Blockchain: Identity Trust Fabric
03.12.2018 - RealMe Integration Services from Optimal IdM
03.6.2018 - The Barriers to Entry for Blockchain
In part one of our Identity Blockchain blog series, we discussed the fundamentals of blockchain and why establishing trust is a key factor making it work. But beyond the obvious Bitcoin application of the blockchain network, there are a number of blockchain experimental infrastructures already in trial (proof of concepts) by corporations and consortiums. If there’s a ‘market’ for those technologies, they will spin off from central governing bodies and spawn new peers. There are, of course, barriers to widescale blockchain adoption. ...
02.22.2018 - The Fundamentals of Blockchain
Bitcoin is now an ubiquitous term for a leger-based cyber cryptocurrency and is often mentioned in tandem with blockchain. What is blockchain? Are Bitcoin and blockchain the same thing? No, they are not. Bitcoin and blockchain are different in that blockchain is the decentralized ledger that keeps track of all of the Bitcoin transactions. Blockchain technology isn’t confined to just bitcoin though. It’s a digital platform that can be applied to other digital transactions—a smart-grid, of sorts. ...
02.20.2018 - Integrate Your Mobile Applications Into Your Company
When it comes to integrating your mobile applications into your company’s backend, you need a secure authentication and authorization process that’s not only efficient, but also reliable, easy-to-use and supportive of cloud-based access. Learn more about implementing a safe integration of your mobile applications below. ...
02.1.2018 - Boost Your Cyber Maturity Level with IAM
What is your company’s cybersecurity maturity level? If you haven’t considered cybersecurity capability maturity-model levels, your company’s identity and access management protocols may not be where they need to be. In general, the stronger your information security maturity model is — meaning the more mature your identity and access management setup is — the greater your defense against outside threats will be. Click here to calculate where your IAM maturity ranks on our scale! ...
01.12.2018 - IAM Addresses Help Desk Issues
In today’s enterprise, employees need to access many different areas of your computer network, even areas that don’t necessarily fall within their given departments. This creates an access problem, since you don’t want your network left open for anyone to access. Even when companies do take steps to protect their networks, hackers can and will break in, either for the purposes of corporate sabotage or out of a general attempt to do malice. The problem is how to make sure everyone who needs access can get access, while hackers cannot. In the past, companies could give employees a password for their own part of the system, but if any cross-department work was required, they would have to contact the help desk in order to get additional access, slowing down operations and reducing efficiency. ...
01.3.2018 - Internal Hiring vs. Hiring a MSSP: Which Is Better?
There’s no question that in today’s day and age, you need a dedicated cybersecurity team to protect your company’s data. The question is, do you dedicate some of your existing IT staff to cybersecurity or do you use a managed security service providers (MSSP) services? Naturally, there are pros and cons to each approach. ...
