identity management Archives

Exploring identity and privilege in the modern threat landscape

BeyondTrust Chief Security Officer Morey Haber highlights the evolving threat landscape and the significance of prioritizing identity-based security practices to safeguard organizations in the digital age.

Nov 1, 2023 By Scoop News Group

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ID.me misled IRS on processing times for identity verification, congressional investigators found

Wait times to receive identity verification were more than double than what ID.me initially represented to the IRS.

Nov 17, 2022 By Tonya Riley

New research identifies poor IAM policies as the greatest cloud vulnerability

Palo Alto Networks threat intelligence unit finds identity and access management policy flaws remain a principal cause of cloud security vulnerabilities.

May 18, 2022 By CyberScoop Staff

Cyber company Okta is latest potential victim cited by Lapsus$ hackers

The financially motivated group of malicious hackers posted screenshots that Okta said could be related to "activity" detected in January.

Mar 22, 2022 By Joe Warminsky

SentinelOne to acquire identity security firm Attivo Networks for $616.5M

The acquisition of Attivo Networks "is a natural platform progression" for SentinelOne, said COO Nicholas Warner.

Mar 15, 2022 By Joe Warminsky

Documents shed light on ID.me’s messaging to states about powerful facial recognition tech

Privacy groups are pushing states to drop the technology provider.

Feb 18, 2022 By Tonya Riley

IRS announces it will stop use of facial recognition for identity verification

The decision by IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig comes after mounting backlash from lawmakers and privacy and civil liberties advocates.

Feb 7, 2022 By Tonya Riley

WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 27: The Internal Revenue Service headquarters building appeared to be mostly empty April 27, 2020 in the Federal Triangle section of Washington, DC. The IRS called about 10,000 volunteer employees back to work Monday at 10 of its mission critical locations to work on taxpayer correspondence, handling tax documents, taking telephone calls and other actions related to the tax filing season. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Lawmakers want IRS to address security concerns with use of facial recognition on taxpayers

There are bipartisan calls from Capitol Hill for the tax-collection agency to consider several potential privacy and security threats posed by ID.me's technology.

Feb 7, 2022 By Tonya Riley

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ID.me CEO backtracks on claims company doesn’t use powerful facial recognition tech

The company had said it didn't use 1:many facial recognition.

Jan 26, 2022 By Tonya Riley

The case for transitioning to a single, multi-cloud IAM platform

SAIC Cybersecurity Director Eric Brown talks with Axiad co-founder Bassam Al-Khalidi about the rationale for moving to a single identity and access management platform.

Aug 16, 2021 By Scoop News Group