The AusCERT 2013 security conference, which coincides with the government-sponsored <a href="http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/awareness_week">National Cyber Security Awareness Week (NCSAW)</a>, dominated the news during the week, and the CSO Australia team was there in full force to hear the latest from industry experts from across Australia around the world.
David Braue |
27 May |
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Adoption of identity and access management (IAM) standards may see social-network giants like Facebook and LinkedIn emerge as trusted identity brokers for everything from government transactions to financial services, a security expert has predicted.
David Braue |
25 Jul |
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As the workforce becomes increasingly mobile and dispersed, identity and access management becomes more important in ensuring organisational security. While managing user identities and controlling access are separate tasks, they are closely related.
Gordon Makryllos |
04 Jun |
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The Australian Government's electronic answer to the nation's $1 billion identity theft problem -- the Document Verification Service (DVS) -- has processed 200,000 verifications, according to the Attorney General's Department (AGD).
Liam Tung |
14 Nov |
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Whether you celebrated National Identity Fraud Awareness Week (NIFAW) with a large identity cake or just shrieked 'Who Are You?' and other identity-inspired songs with friends over a beer or four, the campaign has run its course for another year -– and reminded those who were listening that we're still living in a world of trusting, naïve fools.
David Braue |
02 Nov |
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Destroying data to protect against fraud.
Neerav Bhatt |
18 Oct |
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Within the IT security community, identity- and access-management (IAM) initiatives are considered high value, but are notoriously problematic to deploy. Yet despite IAM's complexity, it represents 30 percent or more of the total information security budget of most large institutions, according to IDC (a sister company to CSO's publisher).
Frank Villavicencio |
30 Sep |
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When you leave your flat, do you leave the door wide open with your jewelry and valuables on the coffee table? When you visit a popular coffee shop, do you leave your iPad and smartphone on the table and go off shopping for an hour or two?
Stefan Hammond |
30 Aug |
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The London Fire Brigade has deployed a new identity and access management (IAM) system to help protect its data systems and ease the workload on its helpdesk.
Antony Savvas |
27 Aug |
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Can the Obama administration fix your identity management problems?
Ellen Messmer |
18 Aug |
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Every major corporation harbouring valuable information has been compromised, but only some know it, according to executives at McAfee and RSA.
Liam Tung |
04 Aug |
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An iPhone-based device will soon let police forces identify within seconds a suspect based on facial features, fingerprints, or now the unique features of the human eye.
John Cox |
22 Jul |
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Managing consumer or citizen identities comes with two key problems--scale and cost--prompting organizations that require onboarding, authentication, and <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/684895/password-management-systems-how-to-compare-and-use-them">password management</a> to look for ways to outsource this effort. Entertainment websites, online retailers, and even US federal government-to-citizen websites are experimenting with a federated model for more of their identity management life cycle. By using single sign-on (SSO) and attribute-sharing between "social" identity providers (IdPs) (i.e. Google and Facebook) and relying parties (RPs), this model effectively reduces cost and improves the customer experience.
Eve Maler |
14 Jul |
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London Grid Ltd, a London Grid for Learning subsidiary, has signed a framework contract with Atos for identity management services.
Anh Nguyen |
13 Jul |
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Raymond James Investment Services is targeting improved identity and access management for its trading platform for independent investment practices.
Antony Savvas |
12 Jul |
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Democratic members of a Senate committee promised Wednesday to push hard for new online privacy protections and for legislation that would require companies to put security monitoring tools on their networks.
Grant Gross |
30 Jun |
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The user database of Groupon's Indian subsidiary, SoSasta, was published on the Internet and indexed by Google, according to an Australian security consultant.
John Ribeiro |
28 Jun |
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The computer hacking group LulzSec said Saturday it had ended its campaign of cyberassaults on government and corporate websites and that it was time for it to "sail into the distance."
James Niccolai |
26 Jun |
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India has issued digital identities to about 9.5 million people so far, and plans to step up enrollment to 1 million a day from October, the head of the agency issuing the biometric identities said on Thursday at a conference in Bangalore.
John Ribeiro |
23 Jun |
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The quality of printing and design software available to the consumer is now so high that criminals are using the technology to start up their own document forging businesses, a parliamentary joint committee on Law Enforcement has heard.
Tim Lohman |
17 Jun |
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