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Today is the first-ever Identity Management Day, created to raise awareness, educate and engage business leaders and IT decision makers on cyber security and identity management.
Anurag Kahol, Bitglass, Art Gilliland, Centrify, Ralph Pisani, Exabeam, and Gary Cheetham, CISO at Content Guru, give their insights into why this day was created and what businesses can do to evolve their security landscape and protect their organisation.

The Edward Snowden scandal serves as an extremely high-profile example of the potential dangers posed by an organisation’s own employees when it comes to data protection.
Samantha Humphries, Exabeam, takes a look at the lessons learned and how companies can build an effective defence against a variety of insider threats.

In many countries, authorities are now recommending or even requiring that major corporations do complete security audits of their third-party vendors. For this, preparation is the key to success. In the latest article from Cybersecurity Magazine, Tim Bandos looks at eight of the most commonly asked audit questions, giving advice on how to be audit ready and make any changes or improvements to data protection programs before it’s too late.

Zero Trust is a cybersecurity approach used to defend against identity-based intrusions.
In this article, Dave Henderson, co-founder of BlueFort Security, discusses how to identify and deploy the strategies and tools needed to keep up with the influx of unmanaged devices coming onto an organization’s network.

Diego Lopez takes a look at the concept of the distributed ledger, the opportunities that it brings as well as the potential risks.

In the final part of our series of articles looking at DDoS protection, Ramil Khantimirov examines how an organisation should approach setting up DDoS defences, which includes careful consideration of both the architecture of an online service and the security provider.