TechSpective’s Identity and Access Management section covers one of the most rapidly shifting domains in enterprise security — where the definition of “identity” itself is being rewritten by AI agents, non-human accounts, and automated traffic that now outnumbers human users online. A dominant theme is how non-human identities require the same lifecycle management as human employees, and why treating AI agents as untrusted devices is a practical security necessity.
Here’s some good news for the selfie generation! MasterCard is initiating a pilot program to test the viability of facial recognition for approving transactions. This new app would allow people to verify their transactions by simply holding their phones up
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Breaches big and small have been in the news, from small organizations losing banking files to global groups like Sony losing seemingly everything to hackers. But with the recent Office of Personnel Management (OPM) hack that was revealed recently, with
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It has been proven repeatedly that passwords alone are a weak form of authentication. Two-factor authentication adds an element of complexity that makes it more secure, but also much less convenient. The solution may lie in risk-based authentication—an authentication mechanism
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