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“Powerful attack methods, like establishing backdoors with machine identities, are now available as commodity malware, making it harder for security professionals to defend against these attacks.”More

Organisations worldwide could recover a collective total of between US$51 billion to as much as US$72 billion just by repairing their poorly protected machine identities.More

Only 10% of organisations believe they have complete and accurate intelligence over all SSH machine identities.More

Venafi has released the findings of its latest survey, revealing 75% of DevOps professionals say certificate issuance policies slow them down.More

These mistakes increase security risks and negatively impact the reliability and availability of business-critical network resources, Venafi has found. More

Less than half of DevOps professionals believe developers always request certificates that serve as machine identities through authorised channels.More

The total number of certificates using lookalike domains is more than 400% greater than the number of authentic retail domains.More

The integration allows network operations to orchestrate the lifecycle of SSL/TLS certificates and ensure security policies are enforced across devices.More

Governments that flout encryption best practice and mandate the inclusion of backdoors into technology are putting their entire countries at risk, according to security professionals.More

Eliminating certificate-related outages within complex, multi-tiered architectures can feel like an impossible effort.More

Machine identity protection solution secures code signing across organisations and guards against unauthorised use.More

“This flaw can be weaponised in highly targeted attacks that would normally require system-wide privileges or a complete subversion of the operating system."More

Certificate-related outages harm the reliability and availability of vital network systems and services while also being difficult to diagnose and remediate. More

'This is not rocket science; backdoors inevitably create vulnerabilities that can be exploited by malicious actors."More

Seventy-two percent of professionals surveyed believe nation-states have the right to ‘hack back’ cybercriminals.More

These services deliver machine-identities-as-a-service to cybercriminals who wish to spoof websites, eavesdrop on encrypted traffic, perform man-in-the-middle attacks and steal sensitive data.More

Cryptographic keys serve as machine identities and are the foundation of enterprise information technology systems. More

Because they point to malicious online shopping sites that mimic legitimate, well-known retail websites, it makes it increasingly difficult for customers to detect the fake domains.More

The study focused on enterprise machine identity protection challenges and included responses from 350 senior IT security professionals.More

As companies integrate more digital tools into their business, many of them remain unaware of the risk code-signing certificates are exposing them to.More

Action Fraud UK is warning people to be wary of any emails they receive that look like they belong to UK university email addresses.More

Organisations must provide mobile devices of all types with secure machine identities that support authentication, encryption and decryption.More

There’s a misconception that public key infrastructure (PKI) is dead.More

A survey has found the majority believe social media data collection needs to be regulated, despite having little faith in their governments.More