Navigating the Merger: Ping Identity and ForgeRock

Introduction: In the ever-evolving landscape of digital identity and security, the recent merger between Ping Identity and ForgeRock has sent ripples through the industry. Both companies have long been stalwarts in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) space, each with a rich history of providing robust solutions to enterprises worldwide. As the dust settles on […]

PingOne MFA integration with PingFederate

Introduction One of security challenges is to verify that a user requesting access to a protected resource is who they claim to be and that they are permitted to access the requested resource. MFA is a process that uses two or more factors to verify an identity. These factors are:- Knowledge (username/password, PIN, etc), Possession […]

DASHBOARD FOR PINGFEDERATE INTEGRATED APPLICATIONS

PingFederate is an enterprise federation server that enables user authentication and single sign-on. It serves as a global authentication authority that allows employees, customers and partners to securely access all the applications they need from any device. PingFederate easily integrates with applications across the enterprise, third-party authentication sources, diverse user directories and existing IAM systems. […]

BASIC AND LEGACY AUTHENTICATION ARE RETIRED BY MICROSOFT

Microsoft is removing basic authentication on 13th October 2020 from Exchange online. How does it affect your Exchange setup? Once retired all the client devices using basic authentication will not be able to authenticate and will stop getting data from the servers. It affects Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), IMAP, POP, and Remote PowerShell and few other […]

IDENTITY & ACCESS MANAGEMENT REVIEW 2019

Identity management is not more limited to user provisioning and single sign on. It is business enabler. With the predicted growth of digital identities, it is becoming critical for business leader to keep the identity management in their top priorities to remain leader in their domain. Growing business to business IAM The customer identity management […]

THE STATE OF MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION (MFA)

Keeping up with change and new technological developments is one of the basic challenges of cyber-security. The hype and excitement around IoT, Cloud and Big data developments is shared by everybody, including those seeking to exploit vulnerabilities. A staggering 60% of the respondents to Thales’s 2019 Data Threat Report have experienced a breach until now, out of […]

FIGHTING SECURITY RISKS BEYOND THE BUG

Data leaks have become an all-too-common societal problem. Still, 99% of the problems do not involve scary zero-day bugs. So why is security still hard? We need to accept that technology isn’t going to save us. Rather, thinking it could, got us into this situation in the first place. A new way of teaching and […]