Scores of US hospitals are thought to have been affected after a security breach at a specialist provider of equipment for cancer treatments last week. Swedish oncology and radiology system provider Elekta explained in a company update this week that a “data security incident” had affected its first-generation cloud-based storage system. “Immediately upon learning of this incident, Elekta partnered with leading cyber experts and law enforcement to launch an investigation to understand what happened, mitigate…

A leading US bank has revealed a data breach in which over 100 online customers had their funds accessed by an unauthorized intruder. First Horizon Bank claimed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday that less than $1 million was stolen in total from those accounts. The attack itself seems to have relied on stolen or brute forced customer credentials, plus the exploitation of a vulnerability inside the financial services company….

I’ve been leading our technical sales and enablement initiatives for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution for some time now, and a number of the most common questions I hear are around how Oracle Cloud VMware Solution’s networking layers fit within the overall Oracle Cloud architecture. To try and answer those questions, I created this poster to visualize the logical topology design behind networking workflows across Customer On-Premises, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.  My…

If I were to ask you why you scanned for compliance at your company, I’d bet you’d tell me it was to help you pass requirements easier, to ensure that your audits are good on the first pass and so that you could troubleshoot technical issues with another process. You didn’t know about that last one? Wait, are you telling me you don’t know about the hidden benefits of compliance that you’re getting? Let’s talk….

So you’ve got a basic understanding of customer identity and access management (CIAM) and why it’s so important. Now it’s time to determine where you fall on Okta’s CIAM Maturity Curve and how to use that assessment to your advantage. In this second episode of our 5-episode podcast, The C-level Strategic Guide for CIAM Investment, we explore the first level on the CIAM Maturity Curve: basic. At this phase you’ve built critical identity security features…