Petteri Ihalainen

As Gartner IAM Summit Spotlights Identities, New Survey Sizes The Challenge

March 26, 2015

Gartner IAM Summit The Gartner IAM Summit in London last week put the spotlight on digital identities and how best to morph standards and infrastructures to support both people and things, commonly referred to as the Internet of Everything (IoE).

Resolved: Username/Passwords Alone MUST Go

January 14, 2015

Username/Passwords MUST Go New Year’s Resolution #1 for any cloud IT deployment manager in 2015 ought to be that the user name/password alone must go. High-profile breaches that exploit username and password-only authorization systems are becoming all-too-frequent events. The Syrian

Turning Identity Inside and Out: IAM Meets The Extended Enterprise

December 10, 2014

IAM Extended Enterprise Company boundaries are blurring as businesses interact closely and utilize online services in growing numbers. Business ecosystems include different stakeholders including customers, partners, and subcontractors to owners and investors. Each stakeholder has their own business processes, infrastructure,

A Seamless Customer Experience Is Essential to Success in Today’s Digital Economy

Implement A Seamless Customer Experience The need for digital interaction has never seemed more critical than it does today. As the coronavirus continues to spread, citizens around the world are being asked to hunker down ...

Modern Auth and Exchange Online Migrations: What IT Professionals Should Know

Modern Auth and Exchange Online Migrations Microsoft has phased out Basic Authentication (Basic Auth), replacing it with Modern Authentication (Modern Auth) to provide increased protection and user security. Through this, Microsoft has turned off Basic ...

Speeding the Cloud On-Ramp and Protecting Performance

Cloud On-Ramp and Protecting Performance The expansion of remote work and the massive growth in usage of cloud-based applications have stressed existing infrastructure and put a keen focus on the performance of everyone’s network environment ...

What Is SASE and Why It is Critical for Cloud Security

What is SASE (Secure Access Service Edge)? SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) is a term coined by Gartner to refer to a new architecture for networking and security that combines both functions into a single, ...

Who Has Time for Higher Education

Higher Education A big challenge for professionals of all ages is time. Balancing the responsibilities of work and life leave little time for self-improvement in the form of education. But ongoing education is more than ...

Of Rogues, Fear and Chicanery: The Colonial Pipeline Dilemma and CISO/CSO Priorities

The Colonial Pipeline Dilemma The Colonial Pipeline is one of a number of essential energy and infrastructure assets that have been recently targeted by the global ransomware group DarkSide, and other aspiring non-state actors, with ...

Security Breach 10 Useful Cloud Security Tools

Useful Cloud Security Tools For Your Business

Cloud Security Tools Cloud providing vendors need to embed cloud security tools within their infrastructure. They should not emphasize keeping high uptime at the expense of security. Cloud computing has become a business solution for ...

Augmented Reality in Architecture: Applications and Prospective

Augmented Reality in Architecture Augmented reality (AR) is a growing field of study and application in the world of architecture. This useful tool can help us visualize architectural designs by superimposing them onto real-world scenes ...