Ivanti Study Shows Enterprise IT Teams, Workers May Be Losing Cyber War on Phishing

MemSQL Expands Collaboration with AWS, Red Hat To Support Cloud-Based Operational Analytics

Ping Identity is adding support for Zero Trust security with new capabilities, practical guidance, and technology integrations.  Further, IDN looks at Ping’s latest offering combines the worlds of identity and intelligence

A recent survey by Venafi has shown that organizations are failing to protect keys and certificates as effectively as they do with usernames and passwords.  While 85% of security professionals have policies to govern password length for human identities, just over half govern keys for machine identities.

Ping Identity is enabling a ‘self-service’ approach to help overstretched IT and security admin teams meet security and access management requirements.

Security provider Centrify is delivering a free edition of its cloud-based Privileged Access Service, the company’s enterprise-grade privileged access management service.  Centrify’s Free Tier Vault aims to help smaller firms eliminate password spreadsheets and harden security postures.

Axiomatics is improving the delivery of dynamic authorization for multiple assets across hybrid, cloud and on-prem environments.   IDN looks at the latest Axiomatics Policy Server and other updates with company execs.

In an eye-opening report, Accenture suggests that the rate of innovation has become so profound that the time many have come for an “Internet refresh” – from the bottom up.  Among the stats: Only 30% of companies are “very confident” in their internet security protection. IDN reviews the highlights. 

Okta is updating the Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication capabilities of its Okta Identity Cloud.  The updates aim to help ensure only the proper people get access to the right resources – and at only the appropriate time.

A recent survey on security staff confirms what we all know – IT is growing even more worried that these professionals are so hard to find, hire and keep.  But the survey, commissioned by Tripwire, also found the shortage is prompting companies to their methods for how to protect against cyberattacks. 

News of the Verizon data breach is just the latest reminder of how tough it is for CIOs and CISOs to balance ‘security’ vs ‘innovation’ in the age of digital transformation and hybrid (borderless) architectures.  One Identity’s Todd Peterson shares 4 proven strategies for how security professionals can be responsive to business initiatives -- without compromising on security needs. 

Red Hat Insights cloud-based service is integrating with Ansible ‘playbooks’ to deliver abilities to automatically remediate outages or other issues that can impact infrastructure security, performance, and stability.