Before we get started, let's take a look at this definition: “A language-neutral way of implementing objects that can be used in environments different from the one they were created in.” And this one ...

App.net on Wednesday announced two new features for its service: two-factor authentication and application-specific passwords. Both measures should significantly beef up security on the social network ...

Microsoft's introduction of ADAM has set the stage for a major shift in the way directories are used for application authentication. META Trend: Driven by compliance and cost, organizations will focus ...

According to a new report from Juniper Research, more than 770 million biometric authentication applications will be downloaded annually by 2019, up from just six million this year which will ...

A web application firewall (WAF) is a critical component of an enterprise security infrastructure, providing a key security layer for web-facing applications and APIs. As web applications mature and ...

Researchers from two-factor authentication provider Duo Security found a loophole in Google’s authentication system that allowed them to bypass the company’s 2-step login verification by abusing the ...

Federation is a model of identity management that distributes the various individual components of an identity operation amongst different actors. The presumption being that the jobs can be ...

The age of automated authentication through biometric scanning is almost here. Yet even in this time of Apple’s Face ID, Windows 10’s Hello, and the up-and-coming FIDO2 specification, passwords are ...