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Data center provider fakes Tier 4 data center certificate to bag $11M SEC deal

CIO Business Intelligence

Deepak Jain, 49, of Potomac, was the CEO of an information technology services company (referred to in the indictment as Company A) that provided data center services to customers, including the SEC,” the US DOJ said in a statement. The certification authenticity forms a smaller part of overall final decision-making, said Gupta.

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What is SASE? How the cloud marries networking and security

Network World

The security features of SASE can include encryption, multifactor authentication, threat protection, data leak prevention (DLP), DNS, Firewall-as-a-Service ( FWaaS ), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). Once authenticated, they have direct access to the resources, addressing latency issues.

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How cybersecurity red teams can boost backup protections

Network World

The principle of least privilege: Users and systems should only have the minimum level of access necessary to perform their tasks, referred to as least privilege. The importance of strong authentication: Another key area that red teams focus on is authentication. Nowhere is this more true than inside the backup system.

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What it means to ‘fight AI with AI’

Network World

Individually authenticating each access request is a good starting place. implicit trust”) that a user on the inside is already authenticated and authorized to use a resource. ZTNA expansion, typically referred to as universal ZTNA , can even eliminate the need for network access control (NAC).

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9 MongoDB 2.6 Drivers Released

SPF13

509 Authentication. LDAP Support for Authentication. Please refer to the release notes of each individual driver (linked below): C 0.94.0. Aggregation Improvements. Writing aggregation results to a collection. Aggregation cursors. Improved aggregation sorting. Aggregation explain. Security Improvements. General Improvements.

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MongoDB 2.6 Drivers Released

SPF13

509 Authentication. LDAP Support for Authentication. Please refer to the release notes of each individual driver (linked below): C 0.94.0. Aggregation Improvements. Writing aggregation results to a collection. Aggregation cursors. Improved aggregation sorting. Aggregation explain. Security Improvements. General Improvements.

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Digital Experience and Security: Turning Unhappy Paths into Happy Paths for Your Customers

CIO Business Intelligence

User authentication is often an “unhappy path”. Through this lens, it’s easy to see why identity and authentication-related problems are such common causes of unhappy paths. For example, authentication systems may require additional layers of security such as SMS one-time passwords (OTPs), out-of-wallet questions, and CAPTCHA tests.

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