Blog posts by guest authors

Before there were PAM solutions everyone was given access to privileged accounts with little regard or control as to who had access to them, when they had access and what they did with that access. As security breaches started to rise and compliance regulations were written it was obvious that manual processes and home-grown approaches to manage privileged access weren't enough to secure your organization. First PAM solutions solved issues but were too inflexible That's when privileged management solutions popped up in the market. There were solutions for password management and...

When it’s “business as usual”, it seems strange to think about disruptions and disasters. With competing priorities and the pressure of everyday demands, planning for worst-case scenarios can feel alarmist and macabre. But as anyone experienced in disaster preparedness will tell you, the best time to prepare for unexpected disruptions to your business is before they happen. And in today’s digital workplace, the ability to support remote employees and ensure secure access to work resources is an essential component of a business continuity plan. Why a business...

To maintain competitive advantage, digital transformation is no longer a choice – it’s an imperative. The rapid shift to the cloud and as-a-service models has enabled organizations to offer more digital services and applications across a wider range of devices for their workforce and customers. In this increasingly connected world, managing digital identities and access in a secure and adaptable way is critical and needs to play an important role in your business strategy. Implementing identity services piecemeal every time you roll out a new digital service is expensive,...

Data, a massive amount of data, seems to be the holy grail in building more sophisticated AI’s, creating human-like chatbots and selling more products. But is more data actually better? With GDPR significantly limiting the way we generate intelligence through collecting personally identifiable data, what is next? How can we create a specific understanding of our customers to exceed their expectations and needs with less data? Many of us collect anything we can get our hands on from personal information, behavioral data, to “soft” data that one might run through a...

Shooting from the hip is easy, because it is fast and sound like you’re making an impact. But do you hit the mark? When you study the ‘art of shooting’ a bit there is a whole lot of practice to it, it takes time and every shot is highly contextual. No soldier goes into battle without a thorough preparation and training. The target, the terrain, the road in and the road out, weather, it all plays a role in hitting the mark. Becoming really good is hard, takes a long time, and ultimately also depends on context. Yet it always beats shooting from the hip. Every so often I...

Guest Author:  Vinny Lingham, CEO, Civic Technologies Bitcoin. Blockchain. Crypto. Decentralization. Tokens. A lot of buzzwords have emerged alongside the rise of blockchain technology. Yet, there is often a lack of context about what those terms actually mean and the impact they will have. Decentralized identity re-envisions the way people share access, control, and share their personal information. It gives people power back over their identity. Current identity challenges all tie back to the way we collect and store data. The world has evolved from floppy disks to the...

Cybersecurity needs to be at the heart of the digital transformation, but organisational models will have to evolve Cybersecurity is in the process of becoming an essential component of any organisation’s digital transformation journey. There is no way around this, especially as policymakers start dipping their toes into privacy and security issues, and societal norms are shifting on the topic. Most new technology layers enabling the digital transformation need to be protected from interference, intrusion, or corruption. This is especially the case across industry sectors seeking...

Guest Author : Jordan L. Fischer, Esq., Co-Founder & Managing Partner of XPAN Law Group, LLC Technology is changing rapidly, correlating in an increasing amount of data collected every second.  These technologies cross-borders and allow businesses to operate on a global scale, at a rate never before seen.  However, the corresponding legal infrastructures operate with borders -- hard borders -- that make the exchange of data, both internally and externally, complicated and challenging.  In the last two years, new data protection regulations have gone into...

Identity isn't hard when you don't always use it. For example, here in the natural world we are anonymous—literally, nameless—in most of our public life, and this is a handy thing. Think about it: none of us walks down the street wearing a name badge, and it would be strange to do so. A feature of civilization is not needing to know everyone's name, or details about their lives, and to give others information about ourselves on a need-to-know basis. To be anonymous, however, does not mean to lack distinction. In fact to be human is to be distinctive: designed by nature to...

Guest post by Christian Goy, Co-founder and Managing Director of Behavioral Science Lab In the future, marketing will be driven neither by demographics, on- or off-line behavioral identifiers or psychographics, but by understanding and fulfilling the individual utility expectations of the consumer. Mitch Joel captures this view of future marketing by concluding, “If the past decade was about developing content and engagement strategies in social channels (in order to provide value, humanize the brand, be present in search engines and more), the next decade will be about the...