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New software releases, updates and general news in the security space get updated in our blog.
08 Jan #SecurityNews: "Survey: Younger employees break the rules and put your company at risk"
Despite the freewheeling autononmy implied by the "bring your own device" movement, companies that embrace the consumerization of IT still have policies in place to govern the management and security of those devices.Despite the freewheeling autononmy implied by the "bring your own device" movement, companies that embrace the consumerization of IT still have policies in place to govern the management and security of those devices.07 Jan Barceló Hotels & Soffid IAM
Barceló Hotels is deploying Soffid IAM & Soffid ESSO to enable single sign on access to its corporate applications, using either smartphones, tablets or desktop PCs. With Soffid ESSO, Barceló boosts their employees productivity and, at the same time, reduces the effort needed to support them,...
02 Jan Roles management with Soffid IAM
The term "role" stands for the function played by someone or something. In an enterprise context, a "role" is the set of permissions that a user needs to do its job. A well-designed role should map to a category or responsibility (for example, room clerk, hiring manager or archivist) and be named accordingly.30 Dec #SecurityNews: "A growing threat: Privileged user abuse"
A U.S.-based global energy company employee with privileged user access was enticed by a foreign company to steal source code and other intellectual property from his employer. As a result of his theft, the company lost three quarters of its revenue, half of its workforce, and more than $1 billion in market value.27 Dec #SecurityNews: "Cybersecurity Will Get More Complex in 2014"
Bad news for all businesses, big and small. Cybersecurity is going to get a lot more complicated in 2014. Global nonprofit IT association ISACA believes IT and cybersecurity professionals should resolve now to gear up for accelerated change and complexity in 2014, especially in cybersecurity,...
23 Dec #SoffidNews: New Partnership with Install4j
We are pleased to announce our new partnership with install4j. What is it? A powerful multi-platform Java installer builder that generates native installers and application launchers for Java applications. Now Soffid IAM will work with it for the best of the results....
19 Dec #SecurityNews: "Sensitive data management in the coming year"
As 2013 draws to a close, it has become clear that every major industry maintains sensitive data, and has been targeted by hackers. This year ushered in a new batch of highly publicized data breaches that affected millions of consumers, many of whom became the...