As malicious bot activity increases and attacks surge against APIs, MFA will become more of a mandate and the CISO will take on a greater role, predicts Ping Identity CEO and founder Andre Durand. Image: kerly chonglor/Shutterstock The dramatic rise in ransomware and other cyberattacks over the past year has finally driven home the point that cybersecurity needs to be taken much more seriously. Amid initiatives by the U.S. government and other parties, there’s a…

Lessons from The Cheshire Cat in Concealment & Misdirection Cyber deception has come a long way from deploying honeypots on the external interface to research attack activity. Nowadays, deception technology has matured such that savvy CISOs consider it a necessary function of a Zero Trust Architecture, particularly with the following use cases: • Insider threat detection • Ransomware • Active Directory protection • Identity and credential protection • Unmanaged device protection   Today, there is…

Cybersecurity was once again identified as a major short and medium-term threat to the world in this year’s World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) The Global Risk Report. The analysis was based on insights from nearly 1000 global experts and leaders who responded to the WEF’s Global Risks Perception Survey (GRPS). Perhaps unsurprisingly, environmental issues like climate action failure and extreme weather ranked highest on the risks facing the world over the short (0-2 years), medium (2-5 years)…

Change is prolific in organizations’ IT environments. Hardware assets change. Software programs change. Configuration states change. Some of these modifications are authorized insofar as they occur during an organization’s regular patching cycle, while others cause concern by popping up unexpectedly. Organizations commonly respond to this dynamism by investing in asset discovery and secure configuration management (SCM). These foundational controls allow companies to build an inventory of approved devices and monitor those products’ configurations. Even so,…

Financial institutions are struggling to spot the tell-tale signs of human trafficking due to resource constraints and the nature of the anti-money laundering (AML) compliance environment, according to experts. Today marks National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in the US. Also known as “modern slavery,” it refers to a range of heinous crimes, including forced begging, debt bondage, domestic servitude and sex trafficking. The most recent stats from the International Labour Organization (ILO) claim over 40 million people around the…