Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of December 7; Quorum Cyber, OneSpan, 1Kosmos, and More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy identity management and information security news for the week of December 7. This curated list features identity management and information security vendors such as Quorum Cyber, OneSpan, 1Kosmos, 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 December 7

Quorum Cyber Selects Scott Burman as Head of Advisory

This week, Scott Burman joins Quorum Cyber, a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Security, as Head of Advisory. With over 25 years of experience in providing professional services and strategic advisory in cyber security, Scott has a rich and varied background in advising customers from different sectors on how to best prioritize and manage their cyber risk and resilience. As a Chartered Engineer, former Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Global Cyber Risk Advisor, Scott has considerable multi-sector experience enabling and advising global organizations and governments on improving and maturing their information security, enabling their growth and resilience. He has a strong heritage in board advisory in the Financial Services sector and was an inaugural Technical Advisory Panel member for the UK Cyber Security Council. Prior to joining Quorum Cyber, Scott held the position as the Global Head of Cyber Risk Advisory for NCC Group, was a Senior Advisor to the National Cyber Security Programme and led his own professional services consultancy company advising FTSE-100 clients.

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OneSpan Introduces New Partner Network Program

OneSpan, a digital agreements security company, this week announced the launch of a new partner network program that now provides a comprehensive set of benefits that will “drive growth and help OneSpan partners deliver seamless and secure customer experiences.” Members of the global partner network can expand their security and e-signature portfolio with “market-leading” solutions, financial incentives, training, and certification, along with technical, sales, and marketing support.

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DOD Offices See Post-Quantum Cryptography as ‘Mission Critical’

Officials at the Department of Defense shed light on their agency’s plans to modernize their encryption infrastructure ahead of the anticipated advent of a fault-tolerant quantum computer, discussing familiar policy goals like private sector collaboration and supporting warfighter operations moving into 2024. Wanda Jones-Heath, the principal cyber advisor at the U.S. Air Force ​​said that updating the department’s encryption from classical cryptographic schemes to a network armed with post-quantum cryptographic standards. She said that this migration is “mission imperative” for the Air Force to ensure its cybersecurity defenses can handle emerging threats. “If we had not started this two years ago, we would be even further behind,” she said in remarks on a panel on Tuesday hosted by General Dynamics Information Technology. “Now we are again [in] a sense of urgency…this is a national security issue.”

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1Kosmos BlockID Adds Passwordless Authentication to Amazon Cognito

1Kosmos, a passwordless solutions provider, this week announced it has completed the integration of its 1Kosmos BlockID platform with Amazon Cognito. As an AWS Advanced Technology Partner, 1Kosmos allows Amazon customers to add passwordless multi-factor authentication (MFA) to their accounts. Customers can deploy and directly procure BlockID from the AWS Marketplace to implement phishing resistant passwordless MFA on AWS Cognito that delivers a frictionless user experience through non-spoofable, live biometrics with verified identity. The BlockID cloud service is designed to prevent identity impersonation, account takeover and fraud while delivering a “convenient, frictionless login experience.”

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AI in the SOC: Should You Hire a Bot?

Steve Benton of Anomali takes a closer look at AI in the SOC and asks the burning question: “Should you hire a bot?” The possibility of AI has been inspiring for everyone, and, as a result, we’ve seen a rush by both consumers and enterprises alike to adopt AI-powered tools and gadgets. CISOs have had little time to think about how to best use AI, educate their employees about its benefits and risks or create and implement the proper security guardrails and policies. As a former CSO for a large global organization, I understand the enormity of the challenge. Yet implementing a complete company ban on the technology is not the answer. Instead of becoming the “Ministry of No”, CISOs need to be the “Ministry of How”, which begins by treating AI as a potential new hire to make sure it is the right fit for your organization.

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The Threat of Quantum Computing

Zibby Kwecka of Quorum Cyber examines the current and future states of quantum computing, and the inevitable threat of a quantum attack. The threat of quantum computing is very real, today. As of July 2022, 25 percent of Bitcoin and 66 percent of Ether are vulnerable to quantum attacks (Deloitte, 2023). These can be secured with action, however, even if a small number of these currencies are stolen, the market disruption may significantly devalue assets. Quantum computers have the potential to solve certain complex mathematical problems significantly faster than classical computers. One of the most notable implications is their ability to break encryption algorithms that rely on the difficulty of factoring large numbers or solving logarithm problems. There are theoretical methods to crack our current encryption methods that would be possible on a conventional computer, however widely inefficient. Quantum will allow the cracking of keys thousands of times more efficiently, making it possible to break today’s encryption in just a few cycles. Thankfully, for now, scale remains a problem for quantum computing. Once quantum computers become a tool that’s commercially available and matured, it’s expected attackers will take advantage of this to break current encryption methods, creating a significant risk to the security of our sensitive data. Using this technology as a platform for an attack is a concern for organizations, not just on the cryptography front. The threat of quantum computing becoming part of an actor’s offensive toolbox is likely. Taking advantage of decryption techniques, forging certificates, or its potential ability of rapid machine learning, could vastly speed up network recon and eavesdropping, and forging identities.

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