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6 Reactions to the Cisco 2017 Midyear Cybersecurity Report: Part 2

Last week, I discussed the first three reactions I had to the “Cisco 2017 Midyear Cybersecurity Report.” I discussed how vendor consolidation is increasing, how spyware is being branded as malware and how detection of threats is continuously improving. DevOps as a Target In the Vulnerabilities section of the document, Rapid7 describes how DevOps is a target and vulnerability for many companies that may use things like AWS, Azure, or Docker frameworks for development. When these resources are built, they are not always deployed in a secure state and often are left behind to run indefinitely. Identity management tools that…

It's All About Identity

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Driving Cloud-Based Agility at Rémy Cointreau with Centrify

Business requirements and information security priorities have always had a tough time aligning. It’s even become something of a cliché these days to say that security is a block on agility, productivity and growth. Yet it doesn’t have to be that way. Rémy Cointreau’s recent collaboration with Centrify is a great example of how, when implemented correctly, security can actually support the business: in this instance, our move to a more agile, cloud-based infrastructure.  On the opening day of Infosecurity Europe in London, I explained to a packed audience exactly how the Centrify Identity Service is helping our employees work…

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Thoughts from the 2017 AWS Summit in San Francisco

One of the things I love about partnering with Amazon Web Services is how often they are in front of their user community. In addition to their large, annual user conference called RE:Invent, AWS hosts several smaller regional summits throughout the year. As an APN partner, Centrify had the opportunity to participate in last week’s AWS Summit in San Francisco. We were lucky to be able to visit with a nice cross-section of AWS users — users across multiple industries, many of which were in the Fortune 1000. It was great meeting with these organizations and across the board, companies…

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Ponemon 2017 Report: The Need for a New IT Security Architecture

It’s annual cybersecurity reporting season and first up in 2017 is the Ponemon Global Study, “The Need for a New IT Security Architecture” sponsored by Citrix. The study reveals global trends in IT security risks and reasons why security practices and policies need to evolve in order to deal with threats from disruptive technologies, cybercrime and compliance. Changes in the workplace and problems managing IT security are also increasing risks to the organization. This report surveyed more than 4000 global IT and security practitioners and discusses the findings that concern risks created by cybercrime, employee negligence and organizational dysfunction and…

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Five Key Takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2016

I had the honor of attending the Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2016 and wanted to highlight some of my key takeaways from the conference. Since Centrify was a sponsor, I was able to talk with many folks with an interest in learning more about Centrify’s announcement, “Centrify Delivers Innovative Capabilities and Best Practices to Streamline and Secure Adoption of Hybrid Cloud.” 1. AWS is Innovative as a Large Company A good proxy for innovation is the number of features and products a company releases. AWS currently has tens of thousands of employees, and AWS announced 24 new products at the AWS Re-Invent show….

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From the Cloud

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How to Keep Active Directory Active in a Hybrid IT World

For enterprise IT, “hybrid” is the word of the year. You’re either operating a hybrid infrastructure model already or you’re teetering on the edge. It’s getting easier now that AWS, Microsoft, Google et al are improving their services in support of such a model. At the Amazon AWS re:invent show in November, every other sentence contained the word “hybrid.” This was in stark contrast to last year where Amazon still firmly believed a total migration was the only logical choice. Some of our customers are very aggressive with plans to dissolve all their data centers and migrate everything to IaaS. The…

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From the Cloud

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The Great Gig in the Sky: Secure Hybrid Cloud

Every day I hear from companies concerned and frustrated over a specific challenge — how to stand up workloads in the cloud while maintaining privileged access security (PAS). Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) has become the great equalizer. It doesn’t matter whether you’re large or small, in finance, healthcare or government — we all share the same worries when it comes to securing access to, and in, the cloud. I was pondering this the other day while sipping a short, dry cappuccino and listening to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. I had an epiphany. Thanks to Roger Waters & Co, I walked away with…

Centrify Perspective

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Top Three New Year’s Security Resolutions

When it comes to setting New Year’s resolutions, most people shoot for the moon. We tell ourselves we will give up carbs, go running every morning, become a vegan or even give up drinking alcohol. Inevitability, three weeks later, we find ourselves right back where we started. As security professionals, responsible for keeping the bad guys out and reducing the risk of data breaches, we find ourselves right back where we started too — we fundamentally do not really improve our security posture, and then wonder why not. We are very similar to our consumer counterparts, because we set lofty…

It's All About Identity

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Changing the Game: Simplified Authentication to IaaS

I am pleased to introduce the Identity Broker capability of the Centrify Privilege Service. Identity Broker for Linux enables a new paradigm in user authentication to Linux systems, which seamlessly integrates your choice of directory service, including Active Directory, LDAP directories or cloud directories such as Google G Suite Directory. This is a significant advancement in Centrify’s identity consolidation capabilities and delivers freedom of choice when deciding where to store your identities. For 12+ years, Centrify has focused on delivering some of the best possible integration of Linux servers into Active Directory. Our customers are successfully securing identity, authentication and privilege across…

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SSO for Cloud-Based Apps a Key to Collaboration Success for Shiseido

At the end of last year, PC Magazine published an article about the five collaboration trends to expect in 2016. The article stated that, “Distributed teams have more ways than ever to communicate and collaborate in real time, and 2016 is set to bring another wave of innovation around cloud-based connectivity, cross-platform integration, and next-generation multimedia conferencing.” They were pretty accurate. Collaboration between employees and contractors — working from anywhere but the office – is more common every day. And, as the article predicted, “cloud-connected everything” (the #2 trend) and “seamless interoperability” (#4) are the name of the game. But building a truly collaborative…