The increased use of mobile and cloud services improves business agility by enabling anywhere, anytime access to applications and data. By opening up the network perimeter, however, it makes it difficult to ensure that only authorized users are accessing critical assets. Traditional authentication with user names and passwords has become increasingly inadequate for a number of reasons. Password fatigue...

If you have homegrown or legacy applications in your environment, you might have security threats of which you aren’t even aware. Your applications and scripts might include hard-coded user IDs and passwords that enable them to access systems, databases, and other resources. An attacker who is able to gain access to those programs will find a treasure trove of...

The ideal in identity management is to have a single source of truth — one repository that holds a unique ID for each user and allows users to access all the resources they’re entitled to. Very few (if any) organizations have achieved this ideal. In most cases, users maintain multiple sets of credentials to log into various systems. Single...

As organizations implement cloud, mobile and Internet of Things platforms, applications and devices are moving outside the physical boundaries of corporate headquarters. Identity has emerged as the new perimeter to these borderless networks, and a preferred attack vector used by cyber criminals to breach systems and exfiltrate sensitive data. The cloud in particular raises concerns about the risk of...