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Adding a digital signature to your email is just one simple step you can take in your journey for more secure communications. Jack Wallen shows you how this is done in the latest version of Apple Mail. Image: GettyImages/Westend61 Digitally signing an email might not be a singular means to a secure end, but it can at least help recipients of your email better trust the missives you send them. Although this isn’t something you…

Many people are excited about Gartner’s Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) framework and the cloud-native convergence of networks and security. While originally proposed as fully unified architecture delivering network and security capabilities, the reality soon dawned that enterprise transition to a complete SASE model would be a decade long journey due to factors such as existing investments, operational silos (customer), and vendor consolidation. Consequently, Gartner introduced a new two-vendor approach to SASE that brought together…

The Challenge with Logs If you consider your time working with technology, reviewing log files must be one of the most daunting tasks. It certainly is for me, line after line of output messages, that may or may not be readable to a human being, searching for the few words, which hopefully bring clarity to a deployment failure, or a production outage.   For troubleshooting success, you must rely on a few characteristics of those logs to be present:  Consistent timestamps  Log Level identification …

In the hands of a thief, your Social Security Number is the master key to your identity.  With a Social Security Number (SSN), a thief can unlock everything from credit history and credit line to tax refunds and medical care. In extreme cases, thieves can use it to impersonate others. So, if you suspect your number is lost or stolen, it’s important to report identity theft to Social Security right away.  Part of what makes an SSN so powerful in identity theft is that there’s only one like it. Unlike a compromised credit card, you can’t…

In the hands of a thief, your Social Security Number is the master key to your identity.  With a Social Security Number (SSN), a thief can unlock everything from credit history and credit line to tax refunds and medical care. In extreme cases, thieves can use it to impersonate others. So, if you suspect your number is lost or stolen, it’s important to report identity theft to Social Security right away.  Part of what makes an SSN so powerful in identity theft is that there’s only one like it. Unlike a compromised credit card, you can’t…

Managing passwords and privileged access is bad enough for people—but that’s going to be dwarfed by the problem of dealing with non-human identities. Image: Shutterstock/sitthiphong How many cloud services, APIs, virtual machines and containers is your organization using? Whatever number you just thought of, you should probably double it—or add a zero at the end. The number of non-human identities is vast and it’s only going up. The entities that use those identities are dynamic—and…