Cybersecurity
Okta breached again due to past breaches
Identity management platform Okta, on October 20th 2023, said it had suffered another breach in its customer support system. As a company that deals with access and authentication services, when…
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When Should mTLS Be Used & When Should It Not Be Used?
If you are looking to adopt a zero trust security posture, mTLS is a must have when it comes to network communications between various application components that you manage as…
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What Sets mTLS Apart From TLS and SSL?
mTLS is an extension of the security provided by TLS. This is done by adding mutual authentication between the client and the server. When using mTLS, both the client and…
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How Does mTLS Work?
What makes mTLS different to standard TLS is that it is two ways. It is also helpful to understand how TLS on its own works using the public key cryptography…
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What is mTLS?
A variation of the transport layer security (TLS), there is mutual TLS (mTLS). TLS is the successor to secure sockets layer (SSL) and is the most widely deployed standard for…
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Why Is mTLS Needed?
mTLS is an important component of a zero trust architecture. One of the principles of zero trust networking is to assume that there is an attacker that has infiltrated your…
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How Is mTLS Implemented?
Proving Identity Is The Hardest Part of mTLS mTLS has significant security advantages, but it also has some implementation challenges such as the establishment of secure mechanisms for services to…
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AI Risks Need To Be Mitigated Urgently & At A Global Level
A question that comes to the minds of a lot of people is if Artificial Intelligence (AI) poses a threat to humanity, along side that of nuclear war and any…
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Rocket Alert App Spoofed, Targets Israeli Android Users With Malware
With a war raging between Hamas and Israel, there seems to be a war also being raged in cyberspace that is continuing to emerge. As soon as the first gruesome…
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ALERT! – Critical Zero Day Vulnerability Reported by Google in Libwebp
A critical zero day vulnerability that was already exploited in the wild and patched in Chrome by Google has a new CVE ID (CVE-2023-5129). This issue is not a zero…
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