Releases New Release Extends Active Directory Password Policy June 19, 2013 by Lee Painter We are pleased to announce the release of Access Manager 1.1-R9 this week, not only does it fix a number of bugs but we’ve thrown in some interesting little features too. So without further ado here are the key features for this release: Override AD Password Policy Extend your security access policy over that offered […] Read more » Active directory internationalization password policy
Security Uncategorized Don't Be Another Data Breach Statistic June 13, 2013 by Lee Painter Verizon released their annual Data Breach Investigation Report recently which you can find here. It is a great study of security breaches that occurred in 2013 and provides a good insight into what we can expect in 2014. If there is anything to take away from this report its this, don’t be a statistic in […] Read more »
K-12 Identity Self Service for K-12 May 23, 2013 by Lee Painter Security continues to play a critical role in education as K-12 school districts discover new ways of integrating technology into their departments. As some have increased the number of applications and systems the unexpected side-effect is an increased number of accounts, an explosion in password related issues and the threat of identity theft becoming ever […] Read more »
Password-Self-Service Considerations for Password Self Service May 9, 2013 by Lee Painter This is a two-part post giving advice on what you should look for when choosing a password self service solution. Its by no means definitive but should give you the building blocks needed to make the right decision for your organization. During the writing of this article it became quite apparent that we needed to […] Read more »
Security Identity Theft: Protecting You & Your Business April 29, 2013 by Lee Painter Techgig posted an article titled, ‘How to avoid online identity theft‘ which details some of the ways people can have their identity stolen from simple over the shoulder skimming to more sophisticated phishing scams. The focus of the article is one of personal safety but the identity theft techniques listed, from over the shoulder skimming […] Read more »
Security Identity Theft: Protecting You & Your Business April 29, 2013 by Lee Painter Techgig posted an article titled, ‘How to avoid online identity theft‘ which details some of the ways people can have their identity stolen from simple over the shoulder skimming to more sophisticated phishing scams. The focus of the article is one of personal safety but the identity theft techniques listed, from over the shoulder skimming […] Read more »
Feature Password-Self-Service Protecting Your Business Assets April 23, 2013 by Lee Painter Businesses have many challenges these days, users need access to company data, applications and resources around the clock. They also need access from anywhere and everywhere whether internal to the company network or external. For IT these end user demands are becoming increasingly more difficult to manage without opening up the network to unscrupulous attacks, […] Read more »
Password-Self-Service Releases New Release Access Manager 1.1-R7 March 21, 2013 by Lee Painter Nervepoint is proud to release the latest version of Access Manager – 1.1 R7. In the tradition of worthwhile upgrades, R7 includes a number of key fixes the most important of which is improvements to the authentication flow UI. The UI responsiveness of moving authentication modules in and out of the flow can be very […] Read more »
Uncategorized Improving Authentication Guesswork November 10, 2012 by Lee Painter I was reading Gunnar Peterson’s article on darkReading recently about authentication and authorization and he concludes with the idea that we should focus more on authorization while improving the guess work associated with authentication. As Gunnar points out there are more authentication contexts these days that it’s impossible to support them all. Nervepoint Access Manager […] Read more »
Uncategorized Dedicated Identity and Password Solutions July 11, 2012 by Lee Painter Computerworld recently reported KPN closed down its self service portal for its corporate customer care service, as 2/3 of them had never changed their default password; a security disaster waiting to happen. KPN security breach closes self service portal It struck me that this is what self service password management (SSPM) solutions are surely for! […] Read more »