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More than one-third of cloud environments are critically exposed, says Tenable

Network World

And, it said, “as organizations ramp up their use of cloud-native applications so, too, does the amount of sensitive data they store there increase — including customer and employee information and business IP. The flaws Overall, the study said, 74% of organizations had publicly exposed storage, some of which included sensitive data.

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Cisco touts ‘Internet of Agents’ for secure AI agent collaboration

Network World

As AI gets built into every application and service, organizations will find themselves managing hundreds or thousands of discrete agents. Infrastructure agents from Cisco and Microsoft simultaneously validate security, identity and access, costs, and SLO compliance.

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Managing the whole lifecycle for human and machine authentication

CIO Business Intelligence

In my last column for CIO.com , I outlined some of the cybersecurity issues around user authentication for verification of consumer and business accounts. . FIDO as an industry initiative was set up a decade ago to standardize the need for strong authentication/password technologies. My kids could have used (and abused) my accounts.

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Architecting Identity: Five Essential Elements of a Modern Customer Authentication Service

CIO Business Intelligence

While protecting enterprise assets using identity and access management (IAM) is important, companies also need to address the applications their customers use. They may have a built-in user store supporting password authentication, for example. In response to cloud-based customer experiences, more focus has shifted to authentication.

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Overcoming the 6 barriers to IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

For instance, Capital One successfully transitioned from mainframe systems to a cloud-first strategy by gradually migrating critical applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS). For example, a financial services firm adopted a zero trust security model to ensure that every access request is authenticated and authorized.

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It’s World Password Day but passwords may be headed for extinction

Network World

Today is World Password Day but a range of alternative authentication methods is challenging passwords so that within the foreseeable future the day of awareness could become obsolete. The backend verifies the identity of the taxpayer by comparing the license image and uses that to authenticate the person filing an electronic return.

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Why enterprise CIOs need to plan for Microsoft gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Between building gen AI features into almost every enterprise tool it offers, adding the most popular gen AI developer tool to GitHub — GitHub Copilot is already bigger than GitHub when Microsoft bought it — and running the cloud powering OpenAI, Microsoft has taken a commanding lead in enterprise gen AI. That’s risky.”