The challenges enterprise IT security teams face today are nothing like they were five years ago. Today enterprises face globally distributed networks of bad actors that wield increasingly sophisticated technological and social tools, designed to infiltrate secure systems and exploit identity-based vulnerabilities.
Digital trust is the foundation for secure business operations. This requires establishing and maintaining a strong cryptographic identity for every single user and machine (i.e. software, hardware, device, container, bot, etc.) attempting to access a network so the enterprise can verify who, or what, is interacting with its system.
Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) is increasingly becoming mission-critical for IT leaders as they work to establish digital trust for their enterprises in remote and hybrid work environments. CISOs and their teams must acquire and manage multiple, expensive, and siloed public key infrastructure and CLM solutions to tackle human and machine identity management.
Quantum computing will render traditional public key infrastructure (PKI), as the world knows it, no longer fit for purpose in the coming years. This poses a very real threat to the information security systems enterprises rely on to protect freedom, liberty, privacy, and security.
Not all forms of multi-factor authentication (MFA) are created equal and the forms that are based on one-time passcodes have turned into corporate liabilities. One-time passcodes that are entered into malicious login pages or entered into a compromised endpoint can be harvested by an attacker and utilized to log in along with a harvested username and password.
The OpenSSL Project team has released the patch for a significant security vulnerability identified within version 3 of the OpenSSL library.
Today the world’s data is secured with technology that in some ways acts like a passport. Like passports, this technology – a public key infrastructure (PKI) digital certificate – contains identity information related to the holder. In the digital world, digital certificates act as a “passport” for humans and the machines (such as software, code, bots, IoT/OT, laptops, and devices) they use.
Quantum computing’s arrival will cause a ripple effect touching every corner of the technological landscape. In general terms, quantum computers lean on quantum physics to run multiple processes simultaneously, making them able to solve certain complex problems much more quickly than traditional computers can today.
For nearly 50 years, public key infrastructure (PKI) has provided a secure cryptographic foundation for the world’s data. But in the next few years, quantum computers are destined to render the current cryptographic algorithms that secure devices and the people who use them obsolete.
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In a world where many different users, mobile devices, and automated processes need to access networked resources, passwords are no longer an effective method to authenticate every single identity in an organization. Sophisticated attacks like phishing, keyloggers, and brute force cracking are highly capable of stealing passwords. Overall, this creates a very real scenario where passwords have become an outdated form of authentication with weak security, bad user experience, and added helpdesk burden all rolled into one.
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