Breaking down the state of authentication

In this Help Net Security video, Bassam Al-Khalidi, co-CEO of Axiad, discusses the results of Axiad’s recent State of Authentication Survey. Key findings from the survey revealed: – 39% indicated phishing is the most feared cyberattack, while 49%… Continue reading Breaking down the state of authentication

Navigating the path to passwordless authentication

Not all paths to passwordless authentication are equal, but adopting an integrated approach can better prepare enterprises for a passwordless future.

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Why combining FIDO2 and PKI provides broader enterprise-wide security

This past year’s seismic shift in how and where people access corporate resources has heightened the urgent need for organizations to upgrade the identity and authentication systems they rely on. That urgency isn’t likely to diminish anytime soon, according to a 2021 Gartner CIO survey. The survey found that 64% of employees at CIOs’ organizations are now able to work from home, and two-fifths are actually doing so, suggesting the landscape for authenticating users has clearly taken on new and more dynamic contours. But it’s not just people accessing enterprise resources. The transition to cloud-based services and the underlying automation supporting digital workloads have led to dramatic increases in the volume of non-human entities — virtual machines, mobile devices, applications, containers, and IoT/OT devices — all seeking their own access to enterprise resources independent of the end user’s identity. As a result, managing machine identities has also become part of […]

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