Multifactor Authentication: The Next Battleground

X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) has responded to multiple security incidents where multifactor authentication (MFA) was not implemented—but where implementing MFA might have significantly reduced the impact of the incident. Such incidents have even included destructive malware attacks, resulting in millions of dollars in losses and the irreversible destruction of thousands…

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The Journey to Simplicity: User Experience in Security

Keeping an organization secure is no easy task, especially with the explosion in cloud adoption and digital transformation against a backdrop of increasingly dangerous threats and threat actors. We can all recite the challenges that security teams struggle with — too many solutions, not enough people, not enough visibility. With…

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How Threat Actors Are Adapting to the Cloud

With organizations increasingly moving to cloud environments, cloud security is more critical than ever. Cloud environments often hold large troves of valuable and sensitive data that can put organizations and their customers at risk if they are breached. At the same time, many organizations are still discovering best practices surrounding…

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Three Key Pillars of Smart Identity

For years, identity and access management (IAM) was that painful necessity that businesses knew they had to spend time and resources on, but it was always done kind of grudgingly. Oh, how times have changed! CIOs and CISOs alike have recognized the critical role that identity plays in an overall digital…

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