CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Houseparty, the social video app that launched in 2016 and soared in popularity during the pandemic, will be shutting down in October, the company announced Thursday.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 19, 2022

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preferred biometric authentication to passwords — and yet so many companies still force their customers to use risky, outdated login credentials.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As financial services become more digital in nature, it’s important that banks think differently when using data analytics, security tools, and education to improve identity authentication and customer data privacy. Have you thought about what can be done with this device to enhance identity authentication?

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The attacks, in which criminals frequently leverage social engineering to impersonate company insiders, C-suite executives or trusted vendors to request urgent payments, can financially devastate organizations. Those who fail should undergo additional training.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I also emphasized that companies need to urgently review their employee access protocol, writing that companies must “ make it a point to do continuous employee training to help your teams avoid being duped by phishing and malware tactics.” According to reports, MGM and Caesars were both customers of identity management company Okta.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 5, 2022

Companies face various cyber risks, ranging from ransomware to data theft. However, cybercriminals commonly take the path of least resistance, and organizations’ reliance on password-based authentication provides numerous avenues of attack. Password-based authentication hurts usability and security.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2024

When you add multi-factor authentication (MFA) resets to the picture, that number is likely even higher. A Forrester study found that companies spend $87 per password reset (adjusted for inflation in 2024), which amounts to a whopping $795 per employee annually. But what happens when a user can’t access their authenticator app?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age. Beswick intends to lead the charge to a new era for the entire company. “It

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

(Hiya Image) Seattle-startup Hiya is joining the growing list of companies using AI against AI to detect misinformation. The company said it needs just a second of audio to determine if a voice is authentic or generated by a voice cloning tool. Hiya was a finalist for Innovation of the Year at this year’s GeekWire Awards.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

Locksmith Panda seems more focused on Indonesia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, with targeting that is more broad, extending to technology, gaming, and energy companies, as well as democracy activists.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age. Beswick intends to lead the charge to a new era for the entire company. “It

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Evolution of social engineering Social engineering exploits human psychology to manipulate individuals into revealing sensitive information or taking harmful actions. The attacker used deepfake video to impersonate the companys CFO on a conference call, convincing the employee that the transaction was legitimate.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

A large majority of autistic people, around 85%, report they enjoy the work they do, however only 44% say they feel they can be their authentic selves at work. As one of the first partners of ATI, the biotechnology company hired interns to form a team of data stewards to work on a significant data segmentation project.

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GeekWire

MARCH 25, 2025

This past weekend, I attended the ATmosphere Conference in Seattle, the first conference about the Authenticated Transfer (AT) Protocol. You likely haven’t heard about it and what it does, but you’ve certainly heard of the social network built using this protocol: Bluesky. players that you came to love and hate.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2022

Password-based authentication is likely the most widely used method of authenticating users to online services. Password-based authentication is used because it is easy to understand and implement. They provide multifactor authentication (MFA) without the usual burden on the user. on a user’s other online accounts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

If you are a CIO or CISO and haven’t yet read this article – Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer,’ you should and then share it with your entire company. It could save your company millions, and potentially much more. Two-factor authentication practices just won’t cut it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2024

In fact, Gartner estimates that by 2026, nearly one-third of enterprises will consider identity verification and authentication solutions unreliable due to AI-generated deepfakes. A prime example is the recent attack that injected an AI deepfake video feed to defraud a Hong Kong company for $25 million.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Regan emphasizes that training users to recognize common phishing indicators is essential as the conversation shifts into how users can counter phishing and social engineering tactics. Stronger multifactor authentication (MFA) methods and secure VPNs are critical components in defense.

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Network World

AUGUST 27, 2024

This collaboration is designed to help businesses tackle decarbonization challenges and accurately measure and report on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through comprehensive sustainability consulting and diagnostic assessment services, the companies said in a statement.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In fact, CIO has reported that it takes only a few minutes for experienced hackers to set up a social engineering attack against enterprises (and their managed service providers) that consider themselves to be secure and protected. Know that legitimate companies will never ask for passwords, personal, financial, or corporate information.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 17, 2022

Increasingly, customers want digital omnichannel experiences and companies are providing them. Knowing this, cybercriminals focus on exploiting weak authentication methods as part of their attacks. Customer loyalty has always started with a positive experience as evidenced by the old saying, “the customer is always right.”

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Social engineering is how the bad guys get employees to say too much Image Credit: Alexandre Formagio. You are now a hacker that is trying to break into your company’s network because you understand the importance of information technology, want to get money from your company, or do something else that you really should not be doing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

While the group’s goals were unclear and differing – fluctuating between amusement, monetary gain, and notoriety – at various times, it again brought to the fore the persistent gaps in security at even the biggest and most informed companies. A quick Google search should settle it. It is impossible to know your adversaries.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2023

From embedding malware or a phishing link in a document to manipulated or outright forged documents and other types of cyber fraud, the increase in document-related attacks cannot be ignored, especially if your company handles tax forms, business filings, or bank statements–the three types of most frequently manipulated documents.

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CTOvision

MAY 23, 2016

Employees are prime in giving the brand a human face and connect with the audience in a meaningful and authentic way. McKinsey and Company has defined big data as the $100 billion business. These individuals can simply be found through analyzing of data available such as, recent purchase, calls to customer service, and social media.

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The Verge

JULY 12, 2021

Authenticated brand logos in Gmail, a security feature that was first announced last July , will be rolling out over the coming weeks, Google announced on Monday. Once these authenticated emails pass our other anti-abuse checks, Gmail will start displaying the logo in the existing avatar slot. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 7, 2024

Here are the key recommendations I provided: AI training implementation: Introduce AI training aligned with company policies and processes to empower employees with the necessary skills and awareness. I’ve heard of companies creating a separate set of policies for every transformative technology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2025

As a leader, your clarity of thought, purpose and clear understanding of your organizations strategic priorities will form the foundation of what your team can deliver to make the companys mission a reality. With the power of social media and the internet, connecting with people virtually anywhere in the world is possible.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 9, 2022

In recent months, you may have noticed an uptick in two-factor and multi-factor authentication prompts, which are being used to verify consumer and business accounts. In the T-Mobile case, Lapsus$ members hacked into T-Mobile’s network in March 2022 by compromising employee accounts, either via phishing or another form of social engineering.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 31, 2022

A more recent phenomenon, the metaverse, will transform how businesses interact with customers, how work is done, what products and services companies offer, how they make and distribute them, and how they operate their organizations. The metaverse will require a digital foundation that enables trust and authenticity. Building trust.

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Vox

AUGUST 22, 2024

My Social Security number had been compromised in an alleged data breach. As many as 272 million Social Security numbers are floating around hacker forums after someone stole them from a Florida-based background check company called National Public Data , which is owned by an actor and retired sheriff’s deputy named Salvatore “Sal” Verini.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 18, 2024

Lets not forget, compliance must also evolve with human factors, such as remote work, changing company policies, and other factors. Verification and access control Effective identity management begins with a verification process to establish the authenticity of users and entities accessing critical systems and data.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

While the company assures that sensitive information like full payment details and Social Security numbers were not compromised, the incident serves as another reminder of the vulnerabilities that can arise from external partnerships. How did this happen?

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Identity attacks use social engineering, prompt-bombing, bribing employees for 2FA codes, and session hijacking (among many techniques) to get privileged access. Use FIDO2-Based MFA : FIDO2 (Fast Identity Online) is a strong authentication standard that provides secure and passwordless authentication.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 11, 2022

Digital transformation is changing everything about the way companies operate, and this includes the way they engage with customers. CIAM: Better for Companies, Better for Customers. The primary purpose of CIAM is to help organizations deliver a great experience to customers and to protect their user data.

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GeekWire

APRIL 1, 2025

(Skylight Social Image) With the future of TikTok up in the air, two engineers from Seattle just landed funding from Mark Cuban for their short-form video app that differentiates itself with unique back-end technology. The company just got off the ground and is led by Victoria White and Reed Harmeyer. ban this week. ban this week.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 22, 2022

Social media is allowing companies to show their creativity and personality to customers and the world like never before. Today, businesses have the ability to reach millions of people through social media—regularly and as creatively as they dare. How does AI boost social media? A staggering 4.62

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