The FIDO alliance advocates the process of eliminating global dependency on passwords. RSA's Kayvan Alikhani discusses how FIDO is educating teams to use authentication tools to protect identities.
Visa's Eduardo Perez says one of the key merchant vulnerabilities his company is most concerned about is weak remote-access controls for point-of-sale systems and devices. He offers risk mitigation advice in this exclusive interview.
With so much stolen PII available to fraudsters, it's time for banks and others to move to more sophisticated forms of authentication of customers' identities. Knowledge-based authentication is no longer reliable.
At a hearing on the role the Interior Department played in a recent breach at the Office of Personnel Management, the Interior deputy inspector general painted a picture of how a hacker might have breached the agency's computer system.
EMV Here We Come. Now that the U.S. has finally embraced secure-in-person transactions with EMV, we'll examine how the transition and the rollout will affect the rate of card-not-present (CNP) fraud and other online transactions. Join our panelists as we discuss such topics as how fraudsters will exploit the CNP...
Chris Feeney, recently named president of BITS, the technology and policy division of the Financial Services Roundtable, describes his top cybersecurity priorities, including helping members deal with insider threats.
Financial services firms are increasingly applying contextual security tools to help identify fraud more quickly. But a shift to continuous authentication will provide even better security, says Vasco's Jan Valcke.
Inspector General Russell George says hackers would have had a tougher time breaching the IRS "Get Transcript" system if the agency had implemented IG recommendations, but he stops short of saying the safeguards would have prevented the hack.
The norm today is a set of customers with multiple identities that interact with your brand across many channels. With that comes the challenge of serving that customer with a fluid experience across every channel.
We're just beginning to get the customer experience right across all of the different channels we...
Caffeine junkies are up in arms over reports that criminals have been targeting their Starbucks account balances. But the real story is poor password-picking practices by consumers, and Starbucks' lack of multi-factor authentication.
The rapid proliferation of mobile devices has created additional security requirements for any organization attempting to increase its presence in the online market. And because smartphones and tablets afford end users a variety of new ways to interact with the enterprise, IT needs to evolve the security measures...
What is the Identity Ecosystem Framework, and why is it so important for security professionals to embrace? Kimberly Little Sutherland of LexisNexis Risk Solutions shares insights on the future of online identity.
In the four years that he led the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, Jeremy Grant says he saw significant progress in the use of new forms of authentication - yet widespread acceptance remains years away.
Slack Technologies, a tech start-up that offers a group chat tool, announces it's rolling out two-factor authentication after hackers breached a database of user profile information.
During her first month on the job, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used a private email server that lacked a digital certificate that would have ensured encrypted and authenticated email communications, surmises security firm Venafi.
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