Blog by Marius Goeddert

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Identity as the Most Critical Element of Security
by Marius Goeddert
With all of us having multiple identities in today's highly digitized world, it would be difficult to disagree with Hed Kovetz, when he says that identity is "almost the last thing that defines the virtual enterprise". As CEO and Co-Founder of Silverfort, Hed knows a thing or two about managing identities properly and shared some of his thoughts in this Speaker Spotlight. Tune in to today’s episode and don't forget to join Hed's keynote on Day 2 of the European Identity and Cloud Conference 2023 where he will be looking at The Identity Security Blind Spot: MFA for Legacy Systems...
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Top 3 EIC Topics Picked by Martin Kuppinger
by Marius Goeddert
We sat down with KuppingerCole co-founder and principal analyst Martin Kuppinger to ask him about the top three topics that have gained importance since last year’s European Identity and Cloud Conference. In his view, these are Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM), Passwordless Authentication, and Decentralized Identity. Tune in to today’s Speaker Spotlight to hear why Martin thinks these three concepts have gained so much importance, and which other topics he believes will be highly relevant at EIC 2023.
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Battling Insider Threats with Zero Trust
by Marius Goeddert
When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in 2020, many organizations were forced to digitize at a speed exceeding their security capabilities. Remote work meant that employees accessed company networks from potentially unsafe end devices. Today, many in the e-commerce business work in a hybrid mode – partly from home, partly from the office – and are thus potential insider threats. According to today’s guest in our Speaker Spotlight, Rajan Barara, Director of Product Management for Identity at Entrust, Zero Trust can help mitigate the risk of insider threats. At its core,...
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The Disjointed State of CIAM
by Marius Goeddert
As conscious consumers, we are all familiar with the different stages of the digital consumer lifecycle from registration and onboarding to authentication, transaction, and sometimes also the deletion of an account. As users we expect a frictionless experience while our data is kept safe. In today’s Speaker Spotlight James Lapalme, Vice President Identity at Entrust, explains why organizations issuing digital identities need to gain a full view of the currently somewhat disjointed landscape of customer identities to be able to offer security and a frictionless user experience at...
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The Path of Unifying Identities
by Marius Goeddert
Most people in the identity and access management community would agree that digital identities are necessary for successful digitization. Tune in to today's Speaker Spotlight with One Identity's Field Strategist Robert Byrne to learn why it is necessary to unify identities in order to sensibly manage the access that is enabled by these digital identities, whether that is related to the lifecycle, privilege, authentication access management, or even directory security aspects of identity. Don't miss Robert's keynote at this year's European Identity and Cloud Conference 2023 entitled...
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Avoiding Pitfalls in CIAM
by Marius Goeddert
A frictionless customer experience can support an organization's security posture because it prevents users from engaging in risky behavior. Tune in to cidaas CEO Sadrick Widmann's Speaker Spotlight to learn why customer experience is not only useful for security but also for business.
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Preventing Supply Chain Attacks
by Marius Goeddert
  What are your top 3 cybersecurity priorities? And have they changed much in recent years? So, my top three cybersecurity priorities haven't actually really changed over the years. They actually changed in content and severity but not over all. So, a major concern, of course, are we seeing enough, do we know whether we are somehow compromised or not? The second question, of course, are we protected enough to actually avoid this happening in the first place, and as a regulated entity our third thought is already around regulatory compliance because security and...
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The Importance of SME’s Cybersecurity
by Marius Goeddert
Complete the following sentence: “Cybersecurity is... / is not...” Cybersecurity is... Cybersecurity is really hard. One of the things that I think we should never forget, we exist in an imperfect world. Security controls are varied and complex, and we face every day a dynamic and relentless adversary. So I always tell people cybersecurity is really, really hard and it needs us all to work together to make it a little bit easier for some of us. What prompted you to work in cybersecurity? I think I was first prompted to work in cybersecurity many, many years...
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Countering State-Sponsored Cyber Attacks
by Marius Goeddert
  What makes Nation State Actors so special compared to other threat actors? I think it's important to understand the differences between the different threat actor groups, I think is super important for a CISO. Those are usually seen as the following. We have the insiders, on the one hand, the attack comes from the inside. So it's an employee which intentionally, accidentally or abused from the outside helps on an attack. We've seen this in the Ukraine situation. So latest since then, this is a concern. The second group that CISOs are concerned about is the...
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Impressions from the European Identity and Cloud Conference 2021
by Marius Goeddert
The European Identity & Cloud Conference 2021 was a major success. Get an impression of the conference now to prepare for the 15th European Identity and Cloud Conference !
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