Displaying items by tag: Identity services

Proprietary video-telephony software company Zoom has abruptly sacked security researcher Bill Demirkapi who was working for the company's red team.

Identity services provider Okta took two months to reveal a breach at a third-party provider and waited until the data that leaked out was exposed by a group of attackers known as Lapsus$.

Identity services provider Okta has now changed its tune and says that 2.5% of its customers — which amounts to about 375 companies — have been affected by the January breach to which it admitted.

The chief security officer of the identity services firm Okta has issued an updated statement about the claims of a breach of the company, saying there has been no breach and everything is fully operational.

Authentication services provider Okta has allegedly been breached by the same group that got through the defences of Samsung and Microsoft, according to a claim made by the group on Monday, but the company has tied it to an event in January.

GUEST OPINION by Jim Cook, ANZ Regional Director, Attivo Networks:  Attacks against public and private sector assets reached a crescendo in 2021, and moves are now underway to stem the tide more permanently.

GUEST RESEARCH: Attivo Networks, the experts in preventing identity privilege escalation and detecting lateral movement attacks, today announced the availability of a new research report conducted by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and commissioned in part by Attivo Networks. The report focuses on Active Directory (AD), the directory-based identity services platform used by 90% of enterprises worldwide, exploring the obstacles and threats organisations face when protecting AD and how they adapt to address these growing concerns.

Identity services provider Okta has announced new state-of-the-art infrastructure based on the AWS cloud service in the Asia-Pacific region.

Global security solutions and identity services vendor Centrify has warned that the increasing size and frequency of data breaches clearly demonstrates that old security models based on protecting network perimeters are failing both businesses and consumers.

Nearly 70% of Australian IT professionals lack confidence in the ability of their organisations to prevent, detect and resolve data breaches, according to a new research report.

Unified identity services provider Centrify is claiming global leadership in the Identity as a Service (IDaaS) market with a milestone of more than 2,000 customers in the cloud on the back of what it says is record sales.

Unified identity service provider Centrify has completed the integration of its User Suite with spend management solutions from Concur.

Global unified identity services vendor Centrify has raised US$42 million in a funding round, securing investment from mobile technology and network security vendors Samsung and Fortinet, as well as venture capital firm Docomo Capital.

A lax attitude by enterprise employees in the US towards protection of corporate data stored on their personal devices should “sound a warning bell” for Australian enterprises, according to the Asia Pacific chief of one unified identity services vendor.

Australian organisations risk financial and reputational damage if they fail to meet the challenges of the new Australian Privacy Act changes to take effect from March this year, according to the APAC chief of a major identity services firm.

Security services vendor Centrify claims an ‘industry first’ with the release of its new cloud-based unified Identity-as-a-Service solution which it says will enable organisations to solve users’ password sprawl problems and secure devices accessing Cloud and mobile apps.