Configuring a USB-C YubiKey for MacOS Smart Card Authorization & sudo
by Recently I stared at the USB-C YubiKey sticking only slightly out of the front of my Mac Mini M4 and wondered if I could use …
Category: Identity Security
Identity Management, 9/11 & Remembrance in Action
Syndicated here from a posting on the 20th anniversary on LinkedIn September 11th, 2021. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony… –The …
Can You Trust a Third-Party User? No, But You Can Manage Their Lifecycle Access
Syndicated here from a post on the CDW Research Hub published on March 21, 2024. Allowing third parties access to organizational systems means striking a …
Why IAM Is Insufficient for Data-Centric Security
The following article was written for and published here on the TrustLogix blog series pages in March 2022. I’m syndicating this here as the contents …
Why Common IAM Solutions for Identity-based Attacks Aren’t Really Working
This article was released as a whitepaper for VeriClouds on May 2, 2020, co-authored with Stan Bounev, CEO at VeriClouds, to address common solutions that …
The End of the Password Is Not Near
Syndicated from Security Boulevard, published May 6, 2021. Let’s face it — everyone pretty much hates passwords. While many industry titans are making significant and …
Ransomware: An Enterprise Perspective
The following article was written for Secure360.org as part of the information presented in an hour-long presentation I gave in Minneapolis entitled Data, Identity & …
Data Security & Identity Management: Essential 1st Cousins in IT Security
As a senior architect, sales engineer, and consultant out in the field working closely with senior IT security leaders and CISOs, I sometimes run into …
The Problem of Non-Human IDs in Organizations Today
The contents of this article are captured here and reflected back in response to an article posted on SailPoint’s Identity Quotient Blog article entitled “Third-Party …
Data Is The New Gold: Getting Data Security Right in Retail
Traditional security has always been metaphorically tied to the medieval castle building of old: building thicker walls and drawbridges, creating multiple perimeters, raising larger armies, …