The Thing About Uber’s Data Breach
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Author Archives: Steve Tout
The Business Case for ITDR
In March of this year, Gartner predicted that Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) would be one of the top 3 trends to watch out for in 2022, and depicted it in a reference architecture as a key component of a modern identity fabric just this week. VeriClouds applauds this recognition and agrees that the […]
Identity Threat Protection for the Enterprise
I received a handful of inquires today in response to Okta’s PassProtect announcement, so instead of copying and pasting a canned reply to my friends and colleagues, I thought I’d make a quick post with some of my thoughts. First of all, congrats to the Okta team for recognizing the value of breach notification and […]
How VeriClouds is Different (and better) than Have I Been Pwned
I am frequently asked about how VeriClouds Identity Threat Protection is any different than the free service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). As the world’s obsession with whether they have been pwned or not became more obsessive and more compulsive, my team at VeriClouds was busy building the next generation credential monitoring and verification platform. […]
Compromised credentials a national security risk
Each week we hear new reports of mega data breaches, and more often than not, compromised passwords are involved.1 By at least one report, the number of compromised records skyrocketed past 6 billion in the first half of 20172, a 6x increase from 2016. With the scope and frequency of data breaches increasingly and steadily […]
The Value of Leaked Credentials Intelligence In The Face of GDPR
In late March of this year, Apple and its customers were hit with a startling demand: pay a ransom to a group calling itself The Turkish Crime family, or face having millions of iPhones, iPads and Macs remotely erased. It all turned out to be a bit of a hoax because The Turkish Crime Family […]