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Are Your Firewalls and VPNs the Weakest Link in Your Security Stack?

Network World

A Zero Trust platform ensures applications and data are not visible to the public internet and users are only provided least privilege access, preventing lateral movement and protecting against ransomware attacks. Zero Trust architecture was created to solve the limitations of legacy security architectures.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO Business Intelligence

The group regularly exploits vulnerabilities in public-facing web applications to gain initial access. Simply relying on multi-factor authentication is not enough to prevent complex breaches that rely on social engineering and impersonation to exploit existing relationships.

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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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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. For example, Microsoft has talked about how AI agents will impact application development. They dont just share information; they collaborate, reason, and take autonomous actions in real-time.

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Global AI regulations: Beyond the U.S. and Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

The identified scenarios where AI is used include judicial, news, medical, biometric recognition, autonomous driving, social credit, social bots and where AI is used by state organizations. In particular, the UAE AI Office created an AI license requirement for applications in the Dubai International Finance Centre.

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Seven Signs That Your Consumers are Ready for Passwordless Authentication

CIO Business Intelligence

Customer demand for passwordless authentication has grown exponentially since smartphones first began offering built-in biometric readers. A staggering 93% of consumers preferred biometric authentication to passwords — and yet so many companies still force their customers to use risky, outdated login credentials. Your first clue?

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How cybersecurity red teams can boost backup protections

Network World

Some common approaches include: Social engineering: Red teams often employ social engineering techniques to exploit human vulnerabilities. Exploiting technical vulnerabilities: Red teams search for and exploit technical vulnerabilities in systems, applications, and networks.

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