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Wednesday 10/19/22 - Identity Jedi Newsletter - Subscribe

Welcome Jedi to the lucky 7th edition of the Identity Jedi Newsletter. You should head to Vegas immediately! And remember.....

Alright some quick announcements to kick us off! A big congratulations to Jedi Chris Anderson for BLASTING through the referral rewards program in ONE DAY! ( Yes padawan you too can be like Chris, just click the button below. )

Your gifts are on the way sir, and a huge thank you for the support!

Our little newsletter is growing Jedi. We are up to a whopping 80+ subscribers! Which is huge considering it started with 0 less than a month ago..lol. I cannot thank you enough for all the support, and will keep thanking you until you all tell me to stop. But even then...I still might. :-)

Alright, let's get to the good stuff.

• Let's talk authentication, Axiad announces Certificate-based authentication

• Zero Trust + Quantum Cryptography = Huh?

• That'll be 9 million dollars please. And we don't take Bitcoin

Let's talk Authentication

Axiad, a leading provider of enterprise-wide passwordless orchestration, recently announced support for certificate-based authentication (CBA), a phish-resistant form of multi-factor authentication for Microsoft Entra Users. Say what you want about the big M, but they still remain a significant player in the IAM space, mostly because they can package their services together and once you are entrenched it's hard to break free.

Quantum what?

Castle Shield Holdings, LLC., a leader in Zero Trust and cybersecurity solutions, has just announced that its Aeolus VPN solution now supports additional post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms selected by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Fair warning...the article is VERY technical and unless you follow the space closely, it won't make much sense. HOWEVER, this is an area we all should be watching closely. Quantum computing changes the game as we know it, as we inch closer to it's practical use we should understand how it's being used.

Yesterday's price is NOT today's price.

IBM's Cost of a Data Breach report is out and surprise, surprise the cost of data breaches went up. Here are some interesting stats from the report as well as a link to the full thing:

• 83% of organizations studied have had more than one data breach

• 60% of organizations' breaches led to increases in prices passed on to customers

• 19 % of breaches occurred because of a compromise at a business partner

• 79% of critical infrastructure organizations didn't deploy a zero trust architecture

Ok the top two absolutely sicken me. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. We can't be this careless with our security and then charge our customers for our mistakes. Look I get it, security is hard, but that's not an excuse to pass the buck ( literally) and then charge your customer for it. We need to start making real change and real efforts in this industry. Rant over, here's the link to the report

Good Reads

Podcasts

Last Word

Identity is hard. I get it. So is security. We don't get the budgets we want, it's hard to get the resources we want, and vendors sometimes sell us shitty products. But the numbers in the latest data breach report are disheartening. Honestly it feels like we've just given up. But not me. I can't. I"m not built that way. We live in amazing time, where technology is truly the stuff of movies. We have apps that can render images, write books, process millions and millions data points and make it human readable. If we can do those things, than we can protect our applications. Push forward, Jedi. We can do this.

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Alright until next week Jedi.

Be Kind to each other, Be Good to each other, Love each other.

-Identity Jedi