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GUEST OPINION: Australia is progressing steadily with an open banking rollout. The Big Four banks – CBA, Westpac, ANZ and National Australia Bank – introduced open banking in July 2021, and other banks and financial services are expected to follow in 2022. According to many fintechs, however, the introduction is going slower than expected, and they are pushing financial markets to open their banking services online by signing additional data holders.

GUEST OPINION: As Australian businesses strive to improve their IT security amid an ever-evolving threat landscape, increasing numbers are deploying multi-factor authentication (MFA).

COMPANY NEWS:  ExtraHop, the leader in cloud-native network detection and response (NDR) has expanded decryption support for Microsoft authentication and application protocols, providing high-fidelity detection of malicious activity associated with nearly two-thirds of the most exploited network protocols.

COMPANY NEWS: Today, Ping Identity (NYSE: PING), the intelligent identity solution for the enterprise, announced that it has been named a Leader by Gartner, Inc. in the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Access Management for the fifth consecutive year. The Magic Quadrant is designed to help companies evaluate technology providers’ completeness of vision and ability to execute.

Identity specialist SecureAuth has acquired Acceptto, which provides passwordless authentication as well as behavioural modelling before, during and after authorisation to determine whether a user is a threat.

Security vendor BlackBerry has announced a technology integration between its Spark unified endpoint management product and Okta's Identity Cloud.

As more devices leverage USB-C, and with companies increasingly recognising the virtues of hardware-based passwordless authentication, Yubico is expanding its range to include the new Security Key C NFC.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Yubikeys are the ultimate multi-factor authentication tool, used by consumers, businesses, governments and any organisation to keep accounts and networks secure in the age of global Cyber Cold War, and we spoke to Yubico's Geoff Schomburgk on iTWireTV.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Yubikeys are the ultimate multi-factor authentication tool, used by consumers, businesses, governments and any organisation to keep accounts and networks secure in the age of global Cyber Cold War, and we spoke to Yubico's Geoff Schomburgk on iTWireTV.

Authentication and identity specialist SecureAuth has unveiled the latest release of its SecureAuth identity as a service product, which delivers several new features including the SecureAuth Identity Store.

Identity provider Okta has announced Okta Starter Developer Edition, which will provide developers with the tools needed to embed Okta authentication, authorisation and user management into applications at scale.

GUEST OPINION by Jim Cook, ANZ Regional Director, Attivo Networks: With cybercriminals always on the hunt for new ways to mount attacks, organisations are paying more attention to the weaknesses that exist within many deployments of Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD).

GUEST OPINION: Reports suggest that cyber criminals have been more active than ever during the global pandemic, seeing the state of general upheaval as an opportunity to evolve and find new attack vectors.

There are things we all know we should do; floss our teeth, phone our mothers, wear clean underwear … and protect our online identity with unique passwords and authentication security. If you’re not doing these things it’s time to start and Yubico can help with the latter.

VENDOR NEWS: The Chinese demand for Australian manufactured is high and product authenticity is of utmost concern. However, it is becoming more and more difficult to determine the legitimacy of some dairy products.

VENDOR NEWS: The Chinese demand for Australian manufactured is high and product authenticity is of utmost concern. However, it is becoming more and more difficult to determine the legitimacy of some dairy products.

Researchers from Cisco's Talos Intelligence Group say that using fingerprints for security is likely to work about 20% of the time. In the other roughly 80% of cases they tested, Paul Rascagneres and Vitor Ventura said they were able to clone prints that enabled them to bypass the security on different devices.

We discuss security in a co-location cloud environment.

eCommerce merchant losses to online payment fraud will exceed US$25 billion in 2024, up from just $17 billion in 2020, despite the ongoing implementation of Secure Customer Authentication (SCA) in Europe.

Australia’s largest telco Telstra and French defence giant Thales are working with software behemoth Microsoft and open-source hardware and software company Arduino to pave the way for scalable security for connected IoT devices, by implementing a solution designed to enable trusted and secure end-to-end communication between device and cloud.