{"id":2730,"date":"2018-04-11T12:37:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T16:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2018-04-11T12:37:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T16:37:59","slug":"key-authentication-findings-okta-blog-q1-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/key-authentication-findings-okta-blog-q1-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Authentication Findings from the Okta Security Blog, Q1 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Once<\/a> again<\/a> we at Solutions Review return to our recurring series<\/a> of reading through the identity and access management blogs of major solutions providers for their key findings and best practices. After all, no one knows the direction of the idustry or the most worrisome threats than those on the front lines of the digital battle. This time the identity and access management blog of interest belongs to Californian vendor <\/span>Okta<\/span><\/a>. We read their most compelling authentication blog posts, including:<\/span><\/p>\n

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International Women’s Day 2018: Lots to Celebrate, But Still Much to Do By Lorraine Costello<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

March\u2014Women\u2019s History Month\u2014may be over, but gender issues in cybersecurity raised in March persist every day of the year. Lorraine Costello\u2019s Okta blog post highlighted some key statistics about the depths of this disparity and what it means for gender equality overall as technology is the fastest-growing job market in the U.S. and is one of the best paid fields. <\/span><\/p>\n

The statistics Costello and Okta share show a fundamental disconnect between men and women in the perception of women\u2019s positions and growth in cybersecurity. As just one example, 63% of men say their enterprise is taking steps to address the gender disparity in cybersecurity, but only 49% of women said the same.<\/span><\/p>\n

Encouraging and accepting more women in cybersecurity isn\u2019t just about equality\u2014although that should be a powerful motivating factor\u2014it\u2019s also about creating the most comprehensive and secure cybersecurity solutions via different perspectives. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Incident Response in the Cloud \u2013 Is Your Security Team Ready? By Cameron Ero<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

Okta acknowledges that digital transformation and cloud adoption can offer huge benefits to enterprises of any size, but with the caveat that identity security and incident response can suffer in the new IT environment. <\/span><\/p>\n

A typical incident response tends to have four major components: information gathering, incident containment, threat removal, and damage assessment. For a compromised employee or privileged access identity, information gathering involves determining who\u2019s identity it is, what their permissions are, what systems they\u2019ve access recently, and what they did with that access. <\/span><\/p>\n

Under a normal system, role-based controls, multifactor authentication, and audit logging can help enterprise IT security teams collect that vital information quickly and determine if the digital identity has been compromised. On the other hand, under a cloud system IT teams suffer from a much looser grip on their security options. Cloud providers\u2019 SaaS platforms don\u2019t offer nearly the same suite as an identity and access management solution; combined with the large number of cloud identities employees can have the time security experts spend gathering information can significantly increase along with threat dwell time.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Okta, deploying an IAM or PAM solution with a centralized digital identity directory system, single sign-on, multifactor authentication, and cloud integration capabilities is essential to improve incident response time and keep a close eye on your identities. <\/span><\/p>\n

What is Multi-factor, or Two-factor Authentication? By Teju Shayamsundar <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

Okta agrees with us: passwords just don\u2019t cut it anymore. The old identity security paradigm of single factor authentication is insufficient to protect your employee and privileged access credentials in the modern threat age. Passwords by themselves are vulnerable to: <\/span><\/p>\n