Cisco Acquires Duo, Or How Should You Do Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has not been recommending SMS OTP 2FA for a while precisely because of SMS inbox takeovers,…
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Privacy, security & risk
Bank Of America Lowers Security, Removes One-Time Passwords At Payee Add/Change
With the latest change to the BofA online banking bill pay service (which added all sorts of unnecessary and distracting icons and ugly fonts), the…
April 24, 2018
Palo Alto Networks Acquires Cloud Monitoring And Workload Management Specialist Evident.io
Palo Alto Networks (PAN) today announced plans to acquire Evident.io, a predominantly API-based cloud monitoring vendor for $300 million in cash. Evident.io has a large…
March 14, 2018
Privacy, security & risk
McAfee acquires CSG / CASB vendor SkyHigh Networks – two years too late?
In the light of large network security vendors (Cisco, Palo Alto, Symantec, Zscaler, etc.) acquiring or building Cloud Security Gateway (CSG, also known CASB) vendors,…
November 27, 2017
SAP Buys CIAM Vendor Gigya
Today, SAP announced it has acquired Mountain View, CA based Customer Identity and Access (CIAM) provider Gigya. Several media outlets placed the purchase price…
September 25, 2017
Privacy, security & risk
Cisco buys Cloud Security Gateway vendor CloudLock for $293M
Given Symantec's recent acquisiton of BlueCoat (and with it BlueCoat's earlier acquired Elastica and Perspecsys cloud security gateway (CSG) assets), and IBM's organic buildout of…
June 28, 2016
Privacy, security & risk
Blue Coat Systems Buy Elastica after Perspecsys
As we predicted in our Brief: The Emergence of the Cloud Security Gateway, this market is consolidating fast. Blue Coat Systems announced this morning…
November 9, 2015
Privacy, security & risk
Fingerprint authentication enters online banking at Bank of America – and signals FIDO’s first major adoption event
Bank of America's website and press release says that you can use your TouchID on iOS to sign into BofA's mobile application on…
October 8, 2015
Privacy, security & risk
CyberArk acquires ViewFinity underscores endpoint privilege escalation’s importance in privileged identity and access management
Today's acquistion of ViewFinity (an endpoint privilege escalation vendor) by CyberArk signals an important taxonomy shift in Priivileged Identity / Access Management. Of major PIM…
October 7, 2015
Privacy, security & risk
Microsoft Acquires Cloud Access Security Intelligence vendor Adallom
Microsoft is doubling down on its cloud strategy and announced the acquisition of Adallom. Adallom offers transparent, cloud-based monitoring and alerting of cloud application use.