Access Control Plays Key Role in NSA’s New Zero Trust Guidelines

Access Control Plays Key Role
in NSA’s New Zero Trust Guidelines

ByMichael

With the pervasive need for Zero Trust concepts to be applied throughout the environment, scalability of the capabilities is essential. Access control decisions that may have only occurred once for each access previously will now be performed continuously as access to the resource is used, requiring a robust infrastructure for making, enforcing, and then logging these access decisions.

Coronavirus: How Ready Are You for Remote Access?

Coronavirus: How Ready Are You for Remote Access?

ByMichael

By Michael Oldham Fourteen companies – including tech giants IBM, AT&T and Verizon – pulled out of the RSA Conference in San Francisco last month due to fears around the spread of the Coronavirus known as COVID-19. For the same reason, Salesforce converted its World Tour event scheduled for Sydney, Australia, to a virtual event…

Zero Trust Access in Spotlight at ISSA Summit

ByMichael

PortSys CEO Michael Oldham Urges Cybersecurity Pros to Take Bigger Roles in Growing Business IRVING, TX – October 2, 2019 – A Zero Trust Access approach is a strategic imperative fordigital transformation efforts and enables cybersecurity professionals to raise their profileswithin their organizations, Michael Oldham, CEO of PortSys®, told attendees at theInternational Systems Security Association…

It may be time to rethink RDP

It may be time to rethink RDP

ByMichael

RDP, Microsoft’s widely used remote access tool, continues to be a prime target of malicious cyber criminals. Some of the threats garnering the biggest headlines since 2016 have been RDP-related: ransomware such as CrySiS, CryptON and Samsam, not to mention all the stolen RDP credentials for sale on the cheap through the Dark Web Exchange….