The coronavirus is having a major global impact, infecting tens of thousands, with increasing fatalities. We can debate whether or not the media and politicians are over-playing it. But the fact is, it should have us all concerned, prepared, and taking appropriate action to protect our businesses. More companies are choosing to not attend in-person […]
PCI compliance matters when managing identity and access for remote third-party service providers. This is the third article in an ongoing series on PCI DSS Requirement 8 compliance. In a nutshell, PCI Requirement 8 is about identifying and authenticating all users to protect data and systems. When you can identify every user, you can control […]
Badly implemented IAM can kill you. Literally. The above statement is not just a scare tactic – it is a fact that has been proven in healthcare, sadly, many times over. The central function of IAM is to grant reliable access – for example to patient data – to those who are authorized, and to […]
As the Editor of Hum@n, I am constantly ‘taking the temperature’ of our readership. It’s important to me that we publish only compelling, interesting and ultimately useful content for you all. And there’s only one real way to measure what readers actually enjoy. Counting “likes” can be an indicator but likes are easy and half the time – […]
Last week, The Simeio Crew descended on the 2017 Gartner IAM event, full of anticipation and excitement (and a lot of caffeine.) Many of us attended – from the CEO and other executive leadership, to our industrious delivery team to our killer sales team. Even our content and social folks tagged along. And this event? Did not […]
Extra, extra! It’s a new edition of The Breach Report. As major breaches happen, we’ll skim for the most important data points from the most trusted resources and publish them here. Here’s what’s happening in November… Whole Foods Breach Update: What’s Happened: You gotta watch those bells and whistles. The compromise didn’t happen in the […]
***Updated 10/24/207*** Is it irony, coincidence or a dark cosmic joke that some of the biggest security breaches we’ve ever seen are happening now? A.K.A. right when we’re celebrating National Cyber Security Awareness Month? We’re tempted to respond to the news of these breaches with a laundry list of advice and observations…but then we realized there’s enough […]
(The following is excerpted from the description of an upcoming speaking session at RSA Charge, which will be presented by Matt Chambers – Principal, Security and Risk, Asurion, Gary Brown – Senior Manager, Global Security & Risk, Asurion as well as Simeio’s own Project Manager and Sr. IAM Consultant Zubin Dumasia) In the real world there is always resistance to […]
Our new 12 page eBook is a great way to identify any gaps in your enterprise’s cybersecurity armor. Find out if your staff is making the “1, 2, 3, 4, Open Door” mistake and learn what is involved in 80% of security breaches… Jayne HallockWith almost 20 years of writing and editing under her belt […]
Have you connected your Archer today? Simeio has! We don’t mean to brag – but Simeio nabbed another “first” and we’re thrilled to be able to say so. In fact, we’re going to be presenting on this first at RSA Techfest this week! So what exactly did we accomplish? Without getting too technical, we were […]