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Hell Pizza security breach exposes the inherent frailty of passwords

Following the announcement that pizza chain Hell Pizza may have been breached, revealing customer details and passwords, Stephen Howes, CEO of GrIDsure commented: “The potential security breach of Hell Pizza yet again exposes the inherent frailty of passwords as a method of authentication and illustrates the risk of using the same password for n [...more...]

Cloud-based authentication fuels CRYPTOCard's channel growth in Europe

CRYPTOCard has announced six new European distribution agreements for its cloud-based authentication platform, CRYPTO-MAS. Veridian Al in Ireland, NetBT in Italy and Exer in France are new partners for CRYPTOCard and brings the company’s unique expertise in securing digital identities using a global cloud-based authentication platform to these impo [...more...]

The security issues associated with cloud computing in the public sector

The adoption of cloud computing is causing significant concerns around privacy and security in the public sector. The benefits for cloud computing are very compelling, especially as the Government looks to the private sector for proven techniques to drive down back office costs, make the most of new technology and use new management practices to en [...more...]

Brescia University deploys Avenda's eTIPS security policy solution to authenticate and authorize users

Brescia University is a Catholic, liberal arts institution founded in in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1950 by the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph. Avenda Systems has announced that Brescia University has deployed its eTIPS enterprise security policy solution to authenticate and authorize users based on their role in order to dynamically apply acc [...more...]

Osirium to offer GrIDsure's strong authentication method to its customers

GrIDsure has partnered with Osirium. The partnership will enable Osirium to offer GrIDsure’s unique strong authentication method to customers using its central single sign-on administration system. Osirium recently conducted a survey of 452 IT security administrators which showed that a significant proportion of companies have lax security poli [...more...]

Swivel iPhone App enables users to generate a new one-time-code each time they need to authenticate their identity

Swivel Secure has announced the immediate availability of the Swivel iPhone App further adding to the range of token-less user interface options available to users of their PINsafe® technology. The new iClient can be downloaded from the Apple AppStore onto a standard Apple iPhone and enables users to generate a new one-time-code each time they n [...more...]

Hampshire County Council Selects CRYPTOCard Two-Factor Authentication

Hampshire County Council has extended its five-year relationship with authentication authority CRYPTOCard to roll-out two-factor authentication for education staff across participating schools in the county. With CRYPTOCard’s innovative, user-friendly authentication service, the county’s teachers will be able to access education services, such a [...more...]

What laptop users should do to defend their data

The steady stream of advances in brute force decryption techniques - which started when Russia's Elcomsoft released the first versions of its Password Recovery suite of utilities around 18 months ago - means that laptop users must now raise their game when it comes to encryption. And, says Andy Cordial, Origin Storage's managing director, as Rus [...more...]

Varonis' software helps find areas with excessive permissions and abnormal access activity

As digital collaboration continues to accelerate in every healthy organization, unstructured data proliferates over multiple platforms, including Windows, SharePoint and UNIX/LINUX servers. Organizations require an intuitive, unified view of these data repositories to efficiently and effectively manage and protect them. Varonis Systems Inc. ha [...more...]

Crédit Agricole reinforces security of access to web services with GrIDsure

The FNCA is the national body that represents the regional branches of Crédit Agricole, one of France’s leading retail banking groups. It was looking for a tool that would help improve ID authentication and security for the relevant authenticated executives and managers from the Crédit Agricole group, without adding to their administrative burden. [...more...]

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