In the NAC products we tested, authentication varies from very strong to very weak, and every point in-between. When starting down your path of evaluating NAC products, decide very early what kind of ...

Today’s attackers use automation and AI to behave like legitimate customers, while real customers absorb the friction.

Microsoft this week announced a preview of "Authentication Strength," a new control for organizations using the Azure Active Directory Conditional Access service. Authentication Strength lets IT pros ...

Cloud service providers must ensure they can integrate new federal security and privacy controls into their processes if they want to continue doing business with agencies. The Federal Risk and ...

Authentication controls, such as passwords and restricted access rights, are a primary layer of protection between an entity’s data and bad actors. Weaknesses in these controls can leave systems ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—Alcatraz, developer of secure frictionless access control products, has added Three Factor Authentication (3FA) to the Rock facial authentication platform to deliver the ultimate ...

When agencies moved to telework, IT departments had to confront the reality that their systems weren’t designed to handle a majority of employees using unmanaged devices from offsite networks. Efforts ...

With the push to move services to mobile and cloud, government agencies will find themselves adopting a zero-trust security model. A key element in the process will be how they use identity ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. financial regulators are calling on banks to strengthen their authentication processes to better protect customer accounts and information systems. The Federal Financial Institutions ...

In our first post in this series, we talked about authentication: verifying whether someone is who he or she claims to be. In many instances, this is where system administrators call it a day, by ...