We all know that Two Factor Authentication (2FA) is the foundation of good perimeter security—but it’s often perceived as cumbersome to use. Users want a smooth way to login, it’s why they save passwords in the login dialogues when possible—or choose poor quality, easy to remember variations of passwords. Convenience is, in some ways, the…
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The recent Gartner summit in London pointed to one inescapable conclusion: Authentication is the hottest topic in security. Businesses have spent billions on security solutions—but does any CEO feel safer for all that investment? Data breaches, ransomware situations and corporate hacks reach the headlines with financial impacts reaching into the hundreds of millions USD. I…
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Security is complex—customers need help and where do they get it? They typically turn to their local trusted party, their IT partner. Those trusted parties are the competent resellers all over the world: the ones who advise, who install and configure the security solutions and serve as the trusted advisor for what to do next.…
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Networks are not what they used to be. Since the introduction of the firewall as the #1 security product to protect your business the world’s ways of working have evolved, massively. Firstly, depending on culture and country, remote working has become very common and employees expect the same access to services outside the office as…
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How tech companies like Spotify, Skype, Clavister and others show why Sweden has the perfect conditions for tech incubation Sweden is amazing for many reasons, its healthy lifestyle and population, its incredible nature and open expanses and its open-minded Nordic attitudes. What might come as a surprise though is that it’s also a tech superpower,…
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Once upon a time, state sponsored surveillance and privacy threats were the domain of the West. But as Chinese telecom infrastructure vendor Huawei shows, Asia is emerging as a formidable threat to our businesses.
Security policies are an essential ingredient to any successful security strategy, some might even argue that policies are the most important part of security controls, but how easy is it to write those security policies? Well, not as easy as we all want it to be. Clavister’s resident security expert, Ahmed Musaad, gives a primer…
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The new acronym has a far greater impact for cybersecurity than the privacy focused GDPR act. The legislative armageddon known as the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR is fast approaching this May with the financial consequences for non-compliance (up to 4 percent of worldwide total) causing a fair amount of justified alarm. But however important that…
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Recent discussions within the security community point to a need to understand this two fields to apply them effectively. The increasing drumbeat of machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as it affects cybersecurity is growing, a fact that was easily seen at the recent Black Hat 2017 gathering. Of the vendors and solutions present,…
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Two massive political fallouts—one European, one Asian—show that the tolerance for data mishandling is zero. And when GDPR arrives, the repercussions will be financial as well. This week, the Swedish government barely managed to survive one its most serious challenges. A vote of no confidence was mounted against three ministers by the opposition that—in normal…
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