Authentication Adaptability: Survival is Key
Filed under: Authentication Trends, General Information, PortalGuard, Uncategorized, compliance
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” – Charles Darwin
As Charles Darwin has put it so eloquently, facing change by adapting to it is how you survive. This can easily be translated over to authentication and the principles behind strengthening authentication to adapt to changing circumstances.
The idea is that change is inevitable and businesses will be weeded out by their ability to adapt. With authentication and security this is an ongoing challenge facing businesses in the form of regulatory compliance, authentication trends and ever increasing attacks.
Although this is primarily experienced across most industries it is an ever pressing issue on the financial, insurance and healthcare industries. These industries are heavily regulated and thus subject to constant compliance requirements. Also they are huge carriers of personal information and data making them huge targets for evolving attacks and identity theft.
Some of the more prevalent attacks include:
- Phishing
- Malware
- Keystroke Loggers
- Session Mismanagement
- Fraudulent Droid apps
- Chat-in-the-Middle
- Spoofing
- Vishing
- Smishing
- And many more…
An adaptation example, in the financial industry, has been the popularity and increasing use of online banking. Although it is extremely convenient for the end-users, the question is how will the financial industry adapt their authentication to protect users’ extremely sensitive data out on the internet?
In order to adapt financial institutions follow the FFIEC guidelines, implement multi-factor authentication and stronger authentication such as one-time passwords. The financial industry is required to have a high level of data protection and therefore is leading the way in authentication and security. By reviewing vulnerable industries it is a great way to understand where to set the bar for your required level of data protection.
PortalGuard Climbs the SharePoint Summit
Come join PortalGuard by PistolStar, Inc. at the SharePointPro Virtual Conference, Climbing the Sharepoint Summit. No need to leave your office, just join us online to ask us any questions you like May 20th 9:00am-4:00pm EST. The best part is that registration is open to anyone and free!
Come see if PortalGuard is right for your company! See how you can meet or exceed your security objectives, including:
- Stronger Authentication
- Reducing Risk - both financial and security
- Enhance compliance with both security and industry standards
- Deliver effective password policies
- Implement Best Practices
And Many More…
Conference Website & Information
PortalGuard has Great Success at the 2010 SharePointPro Summit & Expo
Filed under: General Information, PortalGuard, SharePoint Authentication, SharePointPro Summit & Expo, Uncategorized
Thanks for Stopping By!
We first would like to extend a thank you out to those of you who stopped by our booth at the SharePointPro Summit this year. It was fascinating to hear about how SharePoint authentication and security is being handled, what specific requirements you are looking for, and how PortalGuard or Tailored Authentication could help you with your SharePoint security needs.
If you did not have a chance to see us at the show, then we encourage you to visit PortalGuard.com, to see how PortalGuard is the solution for meeting and exceeding your security objectives. PortalGuard is supported on multiple platforms including Microsoft SharePoint/IIS, IBM Websphere/Websphere Portal, and Lotus Domino.
PortalGuard:
PortalGuard is an authentication and security solution that allows end-users to securely authenticate and manage their portal login credentials directly from a Web browser, while providing administrators with functionality to meet or exceed their security objectives. With PortalGuard, administrators can implement best practices for ensuring stronger and consistently secure authentication. Learn More…
Extensible Authentication Framework:
Many of our customers implement our standard Password Power Plug-ins - the authentication software framework offers robust functionality and feature-rich security, access control, and password management.
But for those customers who have a unique user base, organizational complexities, specific security and compliance requirements or multiple and diverse applications, our expert professional services and development team will develop a solution adapted to their environment and delivered within the framework of our standard Password Power software product, including ongoing technical support. Learn More…
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- The Booth
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- Mark and Kim Representing PortalGuard at the Booth
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- What Are Your Specific Requirements?
Press Release: PortalGuard
PortalGuard is now officially announced! July 14, 2009 we sent out the PortalGuard Press Release announcement, and just look at all of the places it turned up:
WebSphere Journal: http://websphere.sys-con.com/node/1034525
WebSphere Power: http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045441.html
WebSphere World (a WebSphere user community) http://www.websphere-world.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2024
Sphere.com: http://www.sphere.com/sphereit/?q=sphereit:blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=137&sortby=rel&daysago=7&page=1
DominoPower: http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00045440.html
(Release also ran on Outlook Power)
Web Security Journal: https://security.sys-con.com/node/1034525
TMC NET News: http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2009/07/14/4272072.htm
IT.TMCNet: http://it.tmcnet.com/news/2009/07/14/4272072.htm
(Release also ran on TMC Net Healthcare Technology)
Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS114914+14-Jul-2009+MW20090714
Business Week- Business Exchange: http://bx.businessweek.com/sharepoint/pistolstar-now-offers-stronger-authentication-and-enhanced-security-usabilty-and-compliance-for-microsoft-sharepoint/9067359377387311683-5a92b34a67671712c9ebca78fe0b3cf9/
IT Business Net: http://hardware.itbusinessnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=797705
AOL Money & Finance: http://money.aol.com/news/articles/qp/pr/_a/pistolstar-now-offers-stronger/rfid231808530
Java.Blogs: http://javablogs.com/views/ViewBlog.action?id=12600
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WeDoWebSphere Twitter page: http://twitter.com/wedowebsphere (Tweet was on 7/23)
Announcing: PortalGuard Trial for WebSphere
We are proud to announce the PortalGuard trial, for WebSphere functionality is ready! PortalGuard is a password authentication and security solution that allows end-users to authenticate and manage a portal password directly from a Web browser. For a trial please visit: