Access - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Optus: Access ‘remains stable’ following major outage

  ​Optus says access to international internet, streaming and gaming services “remains stable” following a major outage affecting customers last night.

• Senate heads toward vote on CISA cyberthreat info sharing bill

  The U.S. Senate could take a preliminary vote as soon as Wednesday on a controversial bill intended to encourage businesses to share cyberthreat information with each other and with government agencies, despite concerns that the legislation would allow the widespread sharing of personal customer data.

• Obama administration's encryption concerns meant to start a debate

  U.S. President Barack Obama's administration still believes in the use of encryption to protect digital information, even after top officials have questioned how law enforcement agencies will get access to data on encrypted devices, a White House advisor said.

• Snowden leaks after one year: Wrangling over the meaning of 'bulk'

  A debate in the U.S. about whether the National Security Agency should end its bulk collection of U.S. telephone and business records has come down to an argument over the meaning of the word "bulk."

• Privacy groups urge UN to adopt digital surveillance resolution

  Five human rights groups urged the United Nations (UN) General Assembly to adopt a new resolution against indiscriminate mass surveillance.

• Wi-Fi WPA2 vulnerability FAQ

  So this guy at AirTight Networks says Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 has a "hard shell on the outside, but a soft underbelly inside"due to an overlooked vulnerability, and an attacker can decrypt traffic that's been encrypted with WPA2. Is this total panic time?

Whitepapers about Access

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  Beyond the Password

  ​This paper explores how enterprises can move beyond the password (something the user ‘knows’) to an intelligent authentication process that eliminates the risk of weak and vulnerable passwords. It works by cross-validating with other authentication methods like a physical item such as a token or smartphone (something the user ‘has’) and/or a personal attribute like a fingerprint or retina scan (something the user ‘is’). Two-factor (2FA) authentication and multifactor authentication (MFA) are now possible with intelligent authentication across corporate software, Cloud services and smart device apps.

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  Is your Identity and Access Governance program vulnerable to risk?

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  Identity and Access Governance - bringing business and IT together

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  Password reset: The time vampire of the IT universe