Article posted: Aug 21, 2017
By Yvonne Möbius, HR, Versasec
U.K.-based analyst firm Juniper Research estimates criminal data breaches will cost businesses more than $8 trillion over the next five years. Juniper's new research report, "The Future of Cybercrime & Security: Enterprise Threats & Mitigation 2017-2022," also states that personal records stolen by cybercriminals will reach 2.8 billion in 2017 and almost double to 5 billion in 2020, despite new security technologies to thwart cyberattacks entering the market.
Article posted: Aug 17, 2017
By Nick Budden, Versasec Technical Consultant
Verasec has an impressive network of certified partners around the world, and one of the ways we ensure they have a great experience in working with us and with their customers who buy Versasec solutions is with our issuer tool.
Article posted: Aug 09, 2017
By Adam Bostwick, Versasec
It's happened again: A third-party contractor has been deemed responsible for the latest, highly-publicized data breach. This time the company hit was Anthem, where a contractor has been charged with emailing a document containing more than 18,500 Anthem members' information to his personal email address. This information included Medicare ID numbers containing social security numbers, Health Plan ID numbers, as well as Medicare contract numbers and enrollment dates.
Article posted: Jul 17, 2017
Q&A with Richard Brown, Cogito Managing Director
We're pleased to offer a third installation of our quarterly partner blog series. We recently spoke with Richard Brown, Cogito's Managing Director, and he provided valuable insights on the two-factor authentication market and discussed why Cogito's Jellyfish is gaining in popularity.
Article posted: Jul 10, 2017
By William Houry, Vice President of Sales
No matter the industry or its level of security, at least some employees at every enterprise today require access to their corporate networks via mobile devices. Most rely on physical smart cards for user authentication and access, yet there's another low-cost and even simpler solution: Just-in-Time (JIT) virtual smart cards (VSCs) (find more information about smart cards here: https://versasec.com/smart-cards.php).
Article posted: Jun 29, 2017
By Joakim Thorén, CEO
The recent Republican National Committee (RNC) data breach took center stage on June 20, 2017 as a huge security misstep. In fact, it was called "the mother lode of all leaks," in a recent article in Business Insider.
Article posted: Jun 28, 2017
By Nick Budden, Versasec Technical Consultant
Notch another victory for hackers, courtesy of weak passwords. It appears hackers were able to take down the British Parliament's email system by identifying accounts with weak passwords and breaching them.
Article posted: Jun 21, 2017
By Joakim Thorén, CEO
It seems lately that more countries are turning to biometrics to ensure the safety of their borders. This January, Australia vowed it will replace passports as a means of identifying passengers after installing the latest biometric identification platforms, such as facial, iris or fingerprint recognition systems by 2020.
Article posted: Jun 19, 2017
By Anders Adolfsson, Technical Consultant
Keeping your admin rights current is a necessity today. Verelox, a provider of dedicated KVM and VPS servers based in The Hague, Netherlands, is a good case in point. The company recently endured a devastating data outage after a former administrator deleted all customer data and wiped most of the company's servers, per Bleeping Computer.
Article posted: Jun 07, 2017
By Joakim Thoren, CEO
It's no surprise that as the numbers of places where voters can make their election choices electronically increase so, too, do concerns around security, reliability, privacy and safety. But when you're in our business, you know that the technology certainly exists to ensure electronic voting addresses every one of those concerns.
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