Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of March 1; Okta, Exabeam, Lookout, and More

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant identity management and information security news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last month, in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy identity management and information security news items.

Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of March 1

Okta Strengthens Leadership with Executive Appointments

Okta, Inc., a leader in identity security solutions, announced this week three new executive appointments on its go to market team. Eric Kelleher has been promoted to President, Customer Experience & Communications, Ed Daly has been promoted to Chief Customer Officer (CCO), and Christine Halvorsen has joined Okta as the company’s first Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Public Sector. They follow the recent appointments of Jon Addison as Chief Revenue Officer and Kerry Ok as Chief Marketing Officer.

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Exabeam Adds Generative AI Assistance to SOC Platform

Exabeam, a global cybersecurity leader, announced this week two pioneering cybersecurity features, Threat Center and Exabeam Copilot, to its Exabeam Security Operations Platform. Threat Center is a unified workbench for threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) that simplifies and centralizes security analyst workflows, while Exabeam Copilot uses generative AI to help analysts quickly understand active threats and offers best practices for rapid response. These innovations have the great potential to reduce learning curves for security analysts and accelerate their productivity in the SOC.

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Lookout Report: “CryptoChameleon: New Phishing Tactics Exhibited in FCC-Targeted Attack“

Lookout recently discovered an advanced phishing kit exhibiting novel tactics to target cryptocurrency platforms as well as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) via mobile devices. Following the tactics of groups like Scattered Spider, this kit enables attackers to build carbon copies of single sign-on (SSO) pages, then use a combination of email, SMS, and voice phishing to trick the target into sharing usernames, passwords, password reset URLs and even photo IDs from hundreds of victims, mostly in the United States. Lookout first flagged this phishing kit when their automated analysis discovered a suspicious new domain registration that matched a common format used by Scattered Spider, as mentioned in a recent warning by CISA. The domain in question was fcc-okta[.]com, which is only a single character different from the legitimate FCC Okta Single Sign On (SSO) page.

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Solutions Review Solution Spotlight March Madness

Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive webinar events for industry professionals across enterprise technology. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these kinds of events. Solutions Review’s current menu of online offerings includes the Demo Day, Solution Spotlight, best practices or case study webinars, and panel discussions. And the best part about the “Spotlight” series? They are free to attend!

March 7 with Cloudflare and Enterprise Strategy Group

With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with network solutions provider Cloudflare. Join Melinda Marks, a renowned cybersecurity practice director for Enterprise Strategy Group, and Saikrishna Chavali and John Cosgrove from Cloudflare to learn about key API security trends and predictions to consider.

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March 12 with Radware

With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with network solutions provider Radware. Join Senior Director Prakash Sinha as he reviews the emerging threat landscape and explore the most effective strategies that customers and service providers can implement to keep pace with security threats and comply with changing regulatory requirements.

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March 14 with Broadcom

With the next Solution Spotlight event, Solutions Review’s team has again partnered with Broadcom, a leader in cybersecurity and network monitoring solutions. Join Chief Technical Evangelist Jeremy Rossbach as he shows the best practices for overcoming modern network complexity hindering quality network delivery experiences.

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March 19 with Cloudflare and Forrester

With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with network solutions provider Cloudflare. Join Heath Mullins, Senior Analyst at Forrester, and Amit Chaudhry, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Cloudflare, present on regaining control of the digital complexity landscape .

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March 21 with Cyera and Nasuni

With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with data management and security providers, Cyera and Nasuni. Join Cyera’s Head of Sales Engineering, Shane Coleman, as he demo’s their AI-powered data security platform and its advanced DSPM capabilities that allow security teams to understand who can access it, how it is secured and managed, and the exposures that increase their risk across domains and platforms. Then jump in with Nasuni’s Solutions Architect, Christoph Ertl, to experience how easy and straightforward it is to configure Ransomware Protection in Nasuni’s File Data Platform.

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March 28 with High Gear

With the next Solution Spotlight event, Solutions Review’s team has partnered with HighGear, a no-code workflow & process management software platform. Join Sales Engineer Jerry Grue as he provides an overview of HighGear’s capabilities and illustrate how its no-code platform can help companies manage their work.

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