A few years ago, identity was all about me. No, I’m not a narcissist - at least I don’t think I am.  What I mean is that the technologies and processes used to establish and manage my identity in an organization were all about me as a user. Authentication credentials and permissions were assigned t...

Mozilla has released a new website, Observatory, to help developers, system administrators, and security professionals configure their websites safely and securely.April King, an information security engineer who developed the tool, explains that the development of the Observatory is a result of a n...

Security is one driving factor in the evolution of technology. Here’s a timeline showing how the history of SSL/TLS and PKI advanced as security needs increased since its introduction in 1995. The timeline was created by Ivan Ristić of Feisty Duck, who has done a fantastic job of documenting SSL/TL...

As discussed in our first Digital DNA series blog post, organizations are recognizing opportunity and driving toward new digital business models. However, security and risk are seen as major bottlenecks and putting appropriate controls in place is required to allow for the required agility in these ...

Over the past year or so, I’ve had the luxury of working with a group of individuals inside and outside of our organization to explore the role of trust within the context of the bigger changes taking place within the infosec ecosystem and enterprise architecture. We’re turning some of these learnin...

In October 2015, the long-awaited "liability shift" from payment card issuers to merchants took effect in the U.S., which for years had been one of the last strongholds of magnetic stripe-only cards. This change meant that merchants without EMV technology built into their point-of-sale terminals bec...

While we may be culturally conditioned to believe that the setting of pen to paper is a “symbolic and weighty act”, a wet ink signature is really only weak evidence that somebody agreed to do something. Several years ago we quoted a press article on this matter, and we want to revisit this topic in ...