Authentication news stories

The last few months have seen NFTs wielded by digital creators to take ownership over their craft and content. Now other industries are beginning to understand the real-world value that these nifty decentralised tokens can provide.

A new study has shown there has been a significant shift towards wanting a passwordless future, but adoption is still in its infancy.

The cyber threat landscape has always been worrisome, but today these concerns are heightened given an anticipated uptick in cyber-attacks from bad actors.

One of the most daunting challenges of zero trust is applying this new security model to digital interactions with customers.

FIDO Alliance has announced that testing is now available for individuals seeking to become FIDO Certified Professionals.

"SecureKey is highly complementary to Avast’s prior work in identity and together we will take our offer to the next level, accelerating innovation."

Australian businesses face a growing array of sophisticated cyberthreats aimed at breaching networks, stealing data, and causing disruption.

As the world watches the Russian military attacks on Ukraine, it’s difficult to think about normal business operations.

More than three in five respondents in SEA were found to want OTP via SMS in every e-payment transaction, and 57% want to see the implementation of two-factor authentication.

Aussie cybersecurity company, Haventec, has successfully joined the FIDO Alliance, an international industry association with a focused mission to create authentication standards which reduce over-reliance on passwords.

After a busy year in the cybersecurity and online fraud prevention space, the co-founders of SEON Fraud Prevention weigh in on the top trends that changed fraud in 2021.

Despite many high profile instances of online fraud, it can be easy to become complacent about the dangers. But in today’s world, where everyone has a unique digital identity based on our online presence, the threats are very real.

ForgeRock is looking to help enterprises overcome the barriers caused by passwords when moving to the cloud with Pass-Through Authentication and Just-in-Time Migration.

Yubico believes in a passwordless future - but what does that mean, and is it really possible?

“By encouraging the deployment of DMARC and promoting its adoption, BIMI benefits the whole email ecosystem to promote strong sender authentication.”

Updates include new AIOps, IoT and security features for Aruba Central, as well as additions to the Aruba CX Switching portfolio that are purpose-built for the Intelligent Edge.

"Organisations need to re-evaluate the communications channels they use to interact with customers to better establish trust. With fraudsters monopolising open channels such as SMS and email, these channels cannot be relied upon."

Thales has expanded its access management capabilities to offer a modern, unified authentication platform across all applications or services in any IT environment.

"We are thrilled to launch Auth0 Organizations as our next-generation offering for easy onboarding, authentication, and administration of business customers.”

Yubico is partnering with Microsoft to offer 25,000 free YubiKey security keys to high profile and high risk organisations across 31 countries.

Although passwordless authentication options are gaining prominence, there's a reason why we're still using passwords 60 years after their inception: they're effective. 

The revamp provides new ways of delivering certificate automation that can authenticate employees and devices, and encrypt data over networks.

The acquisition will add Symphonic’s dynamic authorisation platform to Ping Identity’s portfolio.

Privilege is about what data a person can access, or actions a person can perform. It is about people, not just about accounts that unlock access to said data or elevated actions, writes Thycotic security engineer for Asia-Pacific Daniel Comarmond.