Corporate cybersecurity policies and procedures must come first. The news bombards us with the latest cyber-attack stories. Being aware of potential attacks is important, but what can a business owner do? Are you worried that cybersecurity vendors are going to try to...
Heartbleed is very dangerous, but not to Power LogOn. This week the cyber security community has been a buzz about the OpenSSL vulnerability and the Heartbleed bug. This is a very serious problem and tech companies are scrambling to plug the holes, get patches...
A cyber attack Scrooged Christmas. Treat security as a process – not as a product! In reading articles about the resent Christmas cyber attacks, the authors’ key take away is that global companies are extremely vulnerable to cyber-attacks and data...
Power LogOn® meets US Government’s FIPS 140-2 requirement for networks access control Government regulations mandate agencies to implement multi-factor authentication for secure network access control (NAC). User names and passwords are still the most...
Looking for a Logical Access Partner to handle all the IT concerns? We had a great presence at the ISC West 2013 conference in Las Vegas. One recurring theme we heard from ID resellers was their desire to offer their existing customers a value add, card...
Multifactor Authentication required by HIPPA & HITECH Access Smart® adds multifactor authentication to McKesson’s Paragon Hospital Information System (HIS) software. Access Smart’s Power LogOn® application requires no modifications to the...
USB Smart Card Readers for Network Access Authentication are Still Safe. A number of online computer news sites are abuzz about a security team’s prototype malware that hijacks USB smart card readers. It seems that a research team out of Luxembourg has issues a...
Security breach exposes roughly 100,000 IEEE members’ User IDs and Passwords On Sept. 24 2012 the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) confirmed that nearly 100,000 of its members User Names and Passwords were publicly exposed from a...
Access Smart received their ECCN classification determination number today from the US Dept. of Commerce. We are classified as a 5D992b Information Security Software product which allows Access Smart to ship our Power LogOn software and licenses internationally....
Cyber Warfare: Techniques, Tactics and Tools for Security Practitioners by J. Andress and S. Winterfeld. Cyber warfare is real. That’s why each Friday I will post a review on this book: Cyber Warfare: Techniques, Tactics and Tools for Security...