Biometrics Brings Us One Step Closer to Eliminating Passwords for Good

There are two primary means of authentication in use today: basic and multifactor. With basic authentication, the user ID and password are the most common. Recently, however, you have likely seen the ...
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The 4 Most Important Takeaways for Technical Safeguards and Compliance

StrongKey and Smith Anderson Law recently co-hosted a round table discussion on technical safeguards with approximately 20 executives from industries including government, healthcare, software, IT, an...
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TLS: Too Little Security

This article assumes basic knowledge of SSL, TLS, and how those support secure web browsing. For a thorough overview or just a refresher, check out this resource. Around the turn of the century, some ...
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The Thales-Gemalto Merger: What Does It Mean?

As a longtime player in enterprise key management infrastructure, we have been advocating for stronger encryption, authentication and key management for years. We have worked to educate the market on ...
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Duty of Care and Information Security

The Hippocratic oath and the principles embodied in “duty of care” guide the daily actions of healthcare providers. But when it comes to information security and protecting sensitive PHI, is the healt...
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The Two Network Security Tools Your Mid-Sized Business Needs

Encryption and authentication — let's learn more about why your company needs these security tools. Because IT staff and resources are often sparse within mid-sized businesses, they see the public clo...
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DevSecOps Begins at the Application Layer

In the fast-moving world of DevOps, security sometimes got left by the wayside on the way to the next iteration. But today's threat landscape is so perilous that developers need to have solid security...
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Automating Data Protection Across the Enterprise

Introduction With the unabated growth of the internet, companies are being challenged to protect unprecedented quantities of data from determined and targeted attacks. While security regulations manda...
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The Two Most Important Steps to Keep Your Data Secure

Although we all recognize that keeping our data safe is important and encryption is something we've probably heard about, how many of us really understand what that means? I know I'm learning more eve...
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Why Software Remains Insecure—and Why It Really Shouldn't

In a recent blog post, Daniel Meissler theorizes that the benefits of quickly building bad software have so far outweighed the downsides. Though this sounds plausible and seductive, there is a more in...
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