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 […]
Protecting Your Business Assets
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, […]
New Release Access Manager 1.1-R7
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 […]
Improving Authentication Guesswork
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 […]
Dedicated Identity and Password Solutions
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! […]
