TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

The central issue is that when there are no humans involved, how do you authenticate the hand-off between machines to ensure it’s going to the right place? “Fundamentally, identity in distributed systems is an unsolved problem.

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Ruby on Rails

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Making it easier to live up to modern privacy policies and expectations. Generating the authentication basics Finally, making it easier to go to production also means we ought to make it easy to be secure. No need to fear rolling your own authentication setup with these basics provided (or, heaven forbid, paying a vendor for it!).

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Simply relying on multi-factor authentication is not enough to prevent complex breaches that rely on social engineering and impersonation to exploit existing relationships.

Industry 198

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CIO

MARCH 14, 2025

That said, you cant build a human firewall with traditional training methods with realms of documentation that talk about best practices and policies. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) should no longer be optional, especially as BYOD has become the norm. The training has to result in behavioral change and be habit-forming.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2025

If its something you genuinely care about, you must put policies and practices in place to show that you actively care. We have good policies around equality, such as a benefits package built around a work-life balance, including family-friendly policies such as flexible working. It doesnt happen by accident.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2024

In cases where the victim cannot recover funds, it’s essential to have insurance policies in place to mitigate the financial loss. Provide ongoing education : Consistently provide education to ensure employees are aware of the latest BEC tactics, such as supply chain attacks and multi-factor authentication (MFA) bypass.

Banking 156

Banking How To Education Insurance 156

Xebia

JANUARY 18, 2023

When a GitHub Actions workflow needs to read or mutate resources on Google Cloud it must first authenticate to the platform. Not only does this cause a security risk for leaking this key, but it might also be that the creation of this key is blocked by your organization’s policy.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Policies and regulations like these make it more important than ever for organizations to catch vulnerabilities before they become full-fledged cyber attacks. Falling out of compliance could mean risking serious financial and regulatory penalties.

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CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

The US President-elect promises many changes impacting enterprises , including import tariffs, immigration deportations, energy policy changes, and relaxation of other business regulations that will impact supply chains, labor pools, and other global consequences.

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2025

Using Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA), we rely on continuous authentication, least privilege access, and micro-segmentation to limit data exposure. Kiran Belsekar, Executive VP CISO and IT Governance, Bandhan Life reveals that ensuring protection and encryption of user data involves defence in depth with multiple layers of security.

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Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Layering remote access with multi-factor authentication (MFA) offers additional protection, reinforcing security by requiring multiple forms of identity verification before access is granted. Automation is another key to resilience, as it allows for adaptive security policies that evolve based on traffic patterns.

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The Parallax

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Step 1: Use two-factor authentication. In its most common form online, two-factor authentication makes you use a second, one-time password to access your account. Set up your phone with a passcode or other security measure, use two-factor authentication (there it is again!), and use only apps that have been verified as safe.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MAY 30, 2024

Organizations across media and entertainment, advertising, social media, education, and other sectors require efficient solutions to extract information from videos and apply flexible evaluations based on their policies. You can use the solution to evaluate videos against content compliance policies.

Generative AI 129

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Simply relying on multi-factor authentication is not enough to prevent complex breaches that rely on social engineering and impersonation to exploit existing relationships.

Industry 147

Industry Technical Review Telecommunications Malware 147

CIO

APRIL 2, 2025

Akamai also has other measures in place to reduce the risk of problems third-party software causes, including microsegmentation and identity-based authentication and access controls. When mistakes happen, it can be serious and this was a very serious incident, says Jody Westby, vice-chair of AMCs US Technology Policy Committee.

Software Review 175

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

In response, AWS now offers a new, non-vulnerable version of Apache Airflow and, for the unpatched versions, has added a CSP (Content Security Policy) as a guardrail. Each Apache Airflow instance is attached to a managed web panel that authenticates its users and grants them session cookies to perform sensitive authenticated operations.

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The blast radius from the attack can be reduced by enforcing stringent segmentation policies. An administrator should define the policies for combining user attributes and services to enforce who has access to what. It is important to determine if a universal access policy is needed when users are on and off premises.

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CIO

APRIL 22, 2025

So there you are, with your bare face hanging out, when a staff member call him George, on the grounds that we have to call him something and his name isnt actually George has decided to take advantage of your open-door policy, thereby revealing a flaw in the policy: Its possible for you to get caught inside the door when its open.

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Palo Alto Networks

MARCH 2, 2025

While the 5G standard includes strong security features, like user authentication, privacy, encryption and some protection for signaling traffic, these are not designed to detect or stop advanced threats in mobile traffic. And its definitely not enough to protect enterprise, government or industrial businesses.

Business Transformation 97

Business Transformation Telecommunications WAN Chemicals 97

CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Like low code, gen AI agents need access to data sources and connections to line of business applications, and organizations will also want policies that control access and what actions can be taken, as well as how widely users can share apps and workflows. This respects all the data policies.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

Zscaler Figure 1: The impact type of VPN CVEs from 2020-2024, covering remote code execution (RCE), privilege escalation, DoS, sensitive information leakage, and authentication bypass. Employees gain swift and seamless access to the tools they need, while IT teams can ensure security posture checks and policy enforcement in real-time.

Organization 97

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

Achieving this means gaining a deeper understanding of the policies that shape this landscape and adopting the right security solutions to help protect critical IT infrastructure. Myriad policies and security regulations play a role in shaping an organizations cybersecurity approachfrom HIPAA to GDPR. PCI DSS 4.0

Compliance 78

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TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2022

TechCrunch reviewed a sample insurance policy, which quoted a $459 annual fee (or about $38 a month) for insurance that pays out $244 for each day that a creator can’t get into their account after a hack. Notch uses a number of metrics to determine the nature of a creator’s policy.

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Prisma Clud

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Once inside, attackers usually attempt to exploit vulnerabilities to interact with the metadata service endpoint (for instance, [link] In scenarios configured to Metadata Service v1 (IMDSv1), the extraction of sensitive information is unencumbered by IMDSv2’s protective authentication layer.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

As regulation and platform policies make it more difficult to track people across the internet, it has forced companies to rethink how to understand and get to know their customers. If they can’t stalk them surreptitiously, how can they gain a full understanding of their needs and wants? ” Bevy CEO Derek Andersen.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

For the developer, the service decouples policies from their code so there is no need to explicitly bake access policies into their applications (which also allows for far more flexibility later on). .” Built on top of the open source OPAL project , Permit.io Image Credits: Permit.io.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The solution also uses Amazon Cognito user pools and identity pools for managing authentication and authorization of users, Amazon API Gateway REST APIs, AWS Lambda functions, and an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. Authentication is performed against the Amazon Cognito user pool.

Generative AI 123

Generative AI AWS Lambda Authentication 123

The Crazy Programmer

MARCH 29, 2022

The email validation system, known as DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance), is meant to safeguard your company’s email domain from being exploited for phishing, email spoofing , and other cybercrimes. For email authentication, DMARC records use SPF and DKIM. DMARC: A Brief History.

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Authentication Malware Internet Banking 173

Coding Horror

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Work emails were protected by two-factor authentication, a technique that uses a second passcode to keep accounts secure. 1) Enable Two Factor authentication through an app, and not SMS , everywhere you can. Have I mentioned that Discourse added two factor authentication support in version 2.0 , and our just released 2.1

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Tenable

APRIL 22, 2025

In-scope cloud tenants are also required to: Implement all future updates to mandatory SCuBA policies Implement all mandatory SCuBA Secure Configuration Baselines and begin continuous monitoring prior to granting an Authorization to Operate for new cloud tenants. 1.1v1 Legacy authentication SHALL be blocked. MS.DEFENDER.1.2v1

Compliance 56

Compliance Government Policies Authentication 56

CIO

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Many of today’s most popular forms of identity verification, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), are hackable. One popular technique is to exploit Group Policy Preferences (GPP). GPP appeared with the release of Server 2008 and allows domain-attached machines to be configured through group policies.

Policies 214

Policies Authentication Enterprise Network 214

Tenable

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Titled “ Product Security Bad Practices ,” the document groups the “no-nos” into three main categories: product properties; security features; and organizational processes and policies. It’s 2024, and basic, preventable software defects continue to enable crippling attacks against hospitals, schools, and other critical infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

When we think about getting access to an application, we tend to focus on the authentication side — granting or denying people (or devices) entry. As Neray explains authorization and authentication are related, but are in fact different and require a different set of tools. It’s not.

Development 237

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) MFA is the first principle on CISA’s pledge. The Tenable One Exposure Management Platform supports SMS for MFA and also allows customers to bring their own authenticator app. To mitigate the risk posed by default passwords, they should be replaced with more secure authentication mechanisms.

Authentication 75

Authentication Policies Software Hardware 75

Tenable

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Tenable Research discovered an SMB force-authentication vulnerability in Open Policy Agent (OPA) that is now fixed in the latest release of OPA. This exploration led us to discover an SMB force-authentication vulnerability (CVSSv3 6.1) OPA has its own high-level, declarative policy language - Rego.

SMB 71

SMB Authentication Policies Open Source 71

Ruby on Rails

AUGUST 1, 2024

Implement new maintenance policy The Rails maintenance policy was updated last week. Add password reset to authentication generator This pull request adds a basic password reset flow to the new Rails generator to show use of signed ids with a mailer. Also, The generator was renamed to “authentication” this past week.

Policies 84

Policies Authentication Testing Applications 84

Xebia

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Let’s examine common security risks, understand the importance of data encryption and various robust authentication methods such as Azure AD and shared access signatures, explore strategies for network protection, and emphasize the value of logging for enhanced oversight.

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