Verizon released their annual Data Breach Investigation Report recently which you can find here. It is a great study of security breaches that occurred in 2013 and provides a good insight into what we can expect in 2014. If there is anything to take away from this report its this, don’t be a statistic in
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Security continues to play a critical role in education as K-12 school districts discover new ways of integrating technology into their departments. As some have increased the number of applications and systems the unexpected side-effect is an increased number of accounts, an explosion in password related issues and the threat of identity theft becoming ever
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This is a two-part post giving advice on what you should look for when choosing a password self service solution. Its by no means definitive but should give you the building blocks needed to make the right decision for your organization. During the writing of this article it became quite apparent that we needed to
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Techgig posted an article titled, ‘How to avoid online identity theft‘ which details some of the ways people can have their identity stolen from simple over the shoulder skimming to more sophisticated phishing scams. The focus of the article is one of personal safety but the identity theft techniques listed, from over the shoulder skimming
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Businesses have many challenges these days, users need access to company data, applications and resources around the clock. They also need access from anywhere and everywhere whether internal to the company network or external. For IT these end user demands are becoming increasingly more difficult to manage without opening up the network to unscrupulous attacks,
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Nervepoint is proud to release the latest version of Access Manager – 1.1 R7. In the tradition of worthwhile upgrades, R7 includes a number of key fixes the most important of which is improvements to the authentication flow UI. The UI responsiveness of moving authentication modules in and out of the flow can be very
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I was reading Gunnar Peterson’s article on darkReading recently about authentication and authorization and he concludes with the idea that we should focus more on authorization while improving the guess work associated with authentication. As Gunnar points out there are more authentication contexts these days that it’s impossible to support them all. Nervepoint Access Manager
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Computerworld recently reported KPN closed down its self service portal for its corporate customer care service, as 2/3 of them had never changed their default password; a security disaster waiting to happen. KPN security breach closes self service portal It struck me that this is what self service password management (SSPM) solutions are surely for!
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Today’s business environment is becoming increasingly complex with more pressure than ever to reduce costs while at the same time increasing user productivity and improving security levels. Traditionally password management has been an IT responsibility. With so much at stake, businesses need to be certain that a user’s identity is securely managed. Regulatory compliance initiatives
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Nervepoint Technologies is pleased to announce the free release of the Access Manager iPhone app – that’s right free! The iPhone app enables end users to safely and securely reset passwords, unlock their accounts and manage their identity remotely or on the go. The app is available below free of charge to be used with
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