05.22.2018 - Protecting Your Patient’s PHI Data (Part 2 of 2)
In part one of our protected health information (PHI) series, we described why a hacker is interested in PHI and how they get it. In part two, we will cover ways to defend PHI data and best practices for mitigating attacks. ...
05.22.2018 - Protecting Your Patient’s PHI Data (Part 1 of 2)
For healthcare, there’s never been a more urgent time to reassess your cybersecurity and identity and access management strategy. Until recently, protected health information (PHI) was the most valuable merchandise on the Dark Web. Complete healthcare records were going for $75 to $100 dollars at the height of demand according to Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT). In fact, there’s so much PHI on the market now that the ICIT says prices have plummeted by about half. ...
05.2.2018 - Know Your Credentials: The Other KYC Requirement
The way people want to interact with their financial providers has changed quickly in the past few years. Now, account holders want control over their funds, and they don’t want to jump through hoops to exert that control. They expect a streamlined customer experience that lets them accomplish their tasks quickly, and there are great rewards to be reaped by institutions able to meet those expectations. For example, according to PwC’s 2017 Digital Banking Consumer Survey, 46 percent of consumers do all their banking online, a percentage that will grow even larger as the first generation of digital natives—those graduating high school around now—enter their adult lives and establish relationships with banks and investment firms. ...
03.31.2018 - Password Security – MFA and Agentless SSO Explained: Cyber Defense Magazine
Author: Mark Foust, Director of Worldwide Technical Sales for Optimal IdM ...
03.1.2018 - Using Context-Based Authentication and Authorization to Minimize Risk
One of the most exciting advances in identity protection today is context-based authentication and authorization. You may also hear it called “adaptive” authentication and authorization. Context-based access uses analytic data that an identity platform compiles as part of the authorization and authentication process to improve authentication methods. These analytic-enhanced authentication methods should be even more effective at enhancing consumer safety and reducing online fraud. ...
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. ...
01.23.2018 - GDPR and Governance
In our blogs, “Initiating Steps On The Path To GDPR Compliance” and “GDPR Compliance – Assessing Data Controls and Risk Management”, we discussed data mapping and risk assessments. Today, we are going to discuss governance. ...
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. ...
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. ...