Delayed enforcement of the "strong customer authentication" requirements for online transactions under the European Union's PSD2 regulation is hampering efforts to enhance security. That's why the European Banking Authority should act quickly to develop a new timeline.
The sheer number and destructive nature of recent data breaches is both alarming and discouraging - but there's still cause to be hopeful. Nearly three-quarters of these attacks were due to the same vulnerability: weak or stolen credentials.
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The unrelenting tide of data breach and compliance challenges continues to plague an increasingly mobile workforce and business models. This has caused a dynamic transformation in the way employees, partners, contractors, and visitors are authenticated.
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Because banks, fintech firms, merchants and payments processors in the EU have struggled to meet the Sept. 14 deadline for compliance with the new PSD2 "strong customer authentication" requirements for electronic payments, it may take a while for European consumers to notice authentication changes.
All enterprises need to grant their employees access to the right digital and physical resources. They also need to digitize their businesses, protect their data, and comply with various local and global regulations.
Nexus helps resolve these identity challenges that most enterprises face, regardless of the...
With widespread use of Active Directory across industries and organizations of all sizes, it is frequently a target for bad actors who can use a cracking dictionary or exposed credentials to gain unauthorized access to an employee's account.
Multifactor authentication remains an industry best practice
for preventing unauthorized account access.
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Following racist and anti-Semitic tweets being posted for a short time to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's hijacked account - despite his use of two-factor authentication - Twitter blamed the security lapse on an unnamed mobile provider. A group called "Chuckling Squad" appears to be responsible.
In today's digital environment, protecting sensitive information and sales transaction data is of critical importance. Technology and advanced loyalty programs are driving the collection of additional data, causing consumers to pay more attention to the types of data they are willing to share with merchants.
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A medical center and a children's hospital in Puerto Rico are victims of a recent ransomware attack impacting a total of more than a half million individuals. The combined incident is the largest ransomware breach reported to federal regulators so far in 2019. How is this threat evolving?
The promise of an integrated identity and risk platform that continuously monitors a myriad of suspicious activities across channels and applications, and dynamically orchestrates authentication and authorization actions has been around for over a decade. Many organizations and technology vendors have attempted to...
Ensuring your employees have the right level of access to their work, and nothing more has never been easy. It's even more challenging now for IT to ensure that a user is who they say they are with users bringing more apps, devices, and networks into the workplace. Combining access and authentication solutions to one...
Misconfigured file storage technologies and a lack of basic security controls are the root causes for the inadvertent online exposure of 2.3 billion files worldwide that contain personal information, including sensitive medical data, says Harrison Van Riper, a security researcher at Digital Shadows.
A vulnerability in global airline check-in software used by 500 airlines could have been exploited to download other individuals' valid boarding passes, potentially giving them access to restricted airport spaces, warns security expert David Stubley. The flaw in Amadeus travel software has now been fixed.
Authentication vulnerabilities in certain GE Healthcare anesthesia devices could potentially allow remote attackers to meddle with the devices, researchers say. GE disputes some of the findings. Find out what other security experts have to say.
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