‘Radical Transparency’ Needed For Tackling Identity Challenges

Sophisticated attackers are regularly relying on identity-centric tactics to target enterprises, but the cybersecurity industry can’t effectively tackle this challenge without first better understanding where different organizations are - and where they are headed - in the process of implementing measures that can help verify the identities of privileged users, said Eric Goldstein, executive assistant director for cybersecurity for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday.

Over the past few years, the nature of authentication for digital identities …

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