You won’t want to miss the newest episode of the Hybrid Identity Podcast (HIP)! In this session, I have the pleasure of talking with IDPro founder and Salesforce Senior VP of Identity Product Management Ian Glazer. What's new at IDPro? IDPro has become the organization for identity pros looking for…
The Colonial Pipeline cyberattack in May 2021 ranks as one of the top critical infrastructure attacks to date. At the time, Semperis Director of Services Sean Deuby predicted that the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) attack was an “implication of what is to come … open season on infrastructure providers.” One year later,…
Hybrid computing environments will be the norm for the foreseeable future: According to a 2021 Gartner report, only 3% of mid-sized and large organizations will migrate completely from on-premises Active Directory (AD) to a cloud-based identity service by 2025. But IT leaders managing hybrid environments face an increasingly complex challenge:…
As the world continues to embrace digital transformation and distributed work, businesses will continue to deploy SaaS apps—while continuing to use on-premises tools. Hybrid ecosystems are becoming increasingly common as a result. Unfortunately, current identity and access management (IAM) practices simply aren’t up to the task of managing them. The…
The chat boxes were on fire and Twitter was buzzing during the recent Hybrid Identity Protection Conference 2021, where the identity and security community gathered to grapple with current-day challenges and prepare for the future of identity. The online conference held Dec. 1-2 drew a mix of identity and access…
New EMA Research Highlights the Rise of Active Directory Exploits Active Directory is getting a lot of buzz in business and tech news outlets lately—but not in a good way. AD continues to be a prime target for cybercriminals: Just a few recent examples include AD-related attacks on Sinclair Broadcast…
Concern about the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack by DarkSide has expanded beyond the cybersecurity industry and into the consciousness of the everyday consumer—an indicator of the extensive implications the attack has on the global economy. In response, the Biden administration issued an executive order and held a press conference, and…
The attacks on Microsoft Exchange servers around the world by Chinese state-sponsored threat group Hafnium are believed to have affected over 21,000 organizations. The impact of these attacks is growing as the four zero-day vulnerabilities are getting picked up by new threat actors. While the world was introduced to these…