There have been some topical things drop in the mailbox of The Cyber Hut this week; namely the noise surrounding US/UK relations with Russia regarding active cyber measures. But meanwhile, the following other topics seemed of interest. World Economic Forum – Pathway to Cyber Resilient Aviation Industry The WEF published a report this week alongside […]
Today’s analyst notes features some interesting stories, articles and links that have appeared in The Cyber Hut intelligence inbox over the last week or so. What are NFT’s? Whilst not strictly a security related product, non-fungible-tokens or NFT’s are making many headlines over the last month or two. They use some interesting cryptographic primitives, to […]
This week Google announced the general availability of their "planet scale" zero trust solution for the corporate environment, called BeyondCorp Enterprise.
BeyondCorp was the internal model Google developed to manage their controlled resources for remote access for employees. The premise was to migrate their trust model - away from the network addressing approach towards a device and identity model, leveraging access aware proxies to control web based access to internal APIs and services.
By Simon Moffatt. Earlier in January, WhatsApp announced it would be making changes to its privacy policy, regarding how data would be shared with its parent company, Facebook. Whilst this change would only impact users outside of the European Union, many users have started to look to more security and privacy focused apps, such as […]
It wouldn’t be January, without the obligatory prediction articles, taking a look at what might and might not happen in the world of each technical vertical – and cyber is no different. Cyber At The Edge Even before Covid-19 reared it’s ugly head, security enforcement, management and access control was heading to the “edge”. Not […]
This article takes a look at funding into the identity and access management vendor space between January and June 2020. The focus is global and the sector definition is quite broad and based on the categories Crunchbase use. Funding decreased by over $130 million between 2019 and 2020 – likely a result of global uncertainty generated by […]
This week privileged access management vendor CyberArk completed the acquisition of SaaS identity and access player Idaptive. The price was approximately $70 million. What impact will this have on CyberArk’s go to market and potentially the rest of the privileged access management market? CyberArk Key Facts: Founded: 1999 HQ: Greater Boston Area, USA Founders: Alon […]
The Covid-19 pandemic, has had far reaching impacts on global economic performance. Economic output in many countries is down, with many heading towards Q3 recessions. The main stock markets in the US and UK have seen significant downward trends over the last 6-8 weeks: But what impact, has Covid-19 had on public identity, authentication and […]
Beyond Identity came out of relative stealth mode recently, with the announcement of a $30 million series A investment from Koch Technologies and New Enterprise Associates. They are focusing on the age old issue of password management – “Eliminating passwords completely is the only answer – not using stronger passwords, password managers, or adding friction […]