Security Architects Partners’ Dan Blum will be speaking September 20, 8:30 AM, at the ISACA Greater Washington DC Chapter’s Cybersecurity and Risk Conference (Register). Here is the presentation abstract:
Blockchain Technology and Concepts of Decentralized Identity
Blockchains are… Continue reading
DIY access control can be problematic. Dan Beckett will be co-presenting with Axiomatics’ Gerry Gebel on:
The cybersecurity elevator pitch is a key communication tool, but security pros tend to struggle with it. For example:
My cousin’s son Ben is an enterprising real estate agent and golfer living on a beautiful New England island. Your CEO… Continue reading
Open Factor Analysis of Information Risk (Open FAIR) from the Open Group is the industry standard for quantitative risk assessment, and the first successful methodology of this kind. Open FAIR consists of a Risk Taxonomy Technical Standard … Continue reading
Active Directory security threats are increasing per part 1 of this post, and organizations must deploy an array of preventative, procedural, and detection controls to avoid becoming one of the next victims.
The AD protection matrix above depicts a… Continue reading
Active Directory security is a critical infrastructure issue for almost all large global organizations, including those using identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) solutions. IDaaS deployments frequently synchronize cloud-based directory accounts or passwords from the premise-based AD installation. Or, even if the IDaaS (e.g.,… Continue reading
In June doings for Security Architects Partners – it’s a busy month! We’re excited for Identiverse where I’ll be attending in my role of free lance KuppingerCole analyst. The figure below says it all; contact us if you’d like… Continue reading
Security Architects Partners is circulating an IAM Top 5 Funding Drivers Survey. Note that it is still open and you’re welcome to add your response. Our goal is to eventually get enough responses to be able to slice and dice… Continue reading
This blog uses a service called Mailchimp to mail copies of new posts to persons that have previously subscribed to receive them. To be able to do this, Mailchimp stores a copy of the subscribers’ names and email addresses … Continue reading
FIDO, Finally, Almost: Passwordless authentication is now becoming a possible dream, thanks to the ongoing standards work at the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance and the collaboration between competitors, such as Microsoft and Google.
Sources: RSA Conference 2018 (upper figure),… Continue reading