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The Top Internet of Things (IoT) Authentication Methods and Options – Security Boulevard
Gartner recently labeled Internet of Things Authentication as a high benefit in 2020 Gartner Hype Cycle for IAM Technologies. This blog covers your options for Internet of Things Authentication.
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IoT authentication is a model for building trust in the identity of IoT machines and devicesto protectdataand control access wheninformation travelsvia an unsecured network such as the Internet.
Strong IoT authentication is needed so that connected IoTdevices andmachines can be trusted to protect against control commands from unauthorized usersordevices.
Authentication also helps prevent attackers from claiming to be IoT devices in the hope of accessing data on servers such as recorded conversations, images, and other potentially sensitive information.
There are several methods by which we can achieve strong authenticationto secureIoT device communications:
The Internet of Things (IoT) is not just a single technology, but a connected environment of various machines (things) that work together independently without human interaction.
The authorization process is the tool used to validate the identity ofeach endpoint in the IoT system. The certification process is configureduponenrollment entry and informs the service provider of the method to be used when checking the systems identity during registration.
Machine Identity Management aims to build and manage confidence in a machines identity that interacts with other devices, applications, clouds, and gateways.
This may include the authentication and authorization of IoT devices such as:
Each IoTmachineneeds a unique digital identity when connecting to a gateway or a central server to prevent malicious actors from gaining control of the system.This is accomplished through binding an identity to a cryptographic key, unique per IoT device.
Machine identity management approaches are specifically responsible for discovering the credentials used by machines and the management of their life cycle.
IoT devices are often hacked remotely, involving a hacker trying to enter the device using an internet connection. If an IoT device is only allowed to communicate with an authenticated server, any outside attempts to communicate will be ignored.
According to the 2018 Symantec threat report, the number of IoT attacks increased by 600 percent between 2016 and 2017, from 6,000 to 50,000 attacks, respectively.
Therefore, when IoTdevices areimplemented within corporate networks,,security needs to be given much more attention. To address this issue, powerful but efficient cryptography solutions must be used to standardize secure communication between machines.
However, it is a tough decision to choose the right IoT authentication model for the job. Before deciding whicharchitecturemodel is ultimately the best IoT authentication, you need toconsiderseveralfactors, such as energy resources, hardware capacity, financial budgets, security expertise, security requirements, and connectivity.
The X.509 protocol (IETF RFC 5280) provides the most secure digital identity authentication type and is based on the certificate chain of trust model. The use of X.509 certificates as a certification mechanism is an excellent way to scale up production and simplify equipment delivery.
Public key infrastructure (PKI) consists of a tree-like structure of servers and devices that maintain a list of trusted root certificates. Each certificate contains the devices public key and is signed with the CA private key. A unique thumbprint provides a unique identity that can be validated by running a crypto algorithm, such as RSA.
Digital certificates are typically arranged in a chain of certificates in which each certificate is signed by the private key of another trusted certificate, and the chain must return to a globally trusted root certificate. This arrangement establishes a delegated chain of trust from the trusted root certificate authority (CA) to the final entity leaf certificate installed on the device through each intermediate CA.
It requires a lot of management control, but there are many vendor options out there.
However, X.509 certificate lifecycle management can be a challenge due to the logistical complexities involved and comes at a price, adding to the overall solution cost. For this reason, many customers rely on external vendors for certificatesand lifecycle automation.
The Hardware Security Module, or HSM, is used for secure, hardware-based device secret storage and is the safest form of secret storage. Both the X.509 certificate and the SAS token can be stored in the HSM. HSMs may be used with the two attestation mechanisms supported by the provisioning service.
Alternatively, device secrets may also be stored in software (memory) but is a less secure form of storage compared to an HSM.
It is essential to check the devices identity that communicates with the messaging gateway in IoT authentication deployments. The usual method is to generate key pairs for devices that are then used to authenticate and encrypt traffic. However, the disk-based key pairs are susceptible to tampering.
TPMs come ina number ofdifferent forms, including:
While a typical TPM has several cryptographic capabilities, three key features are relevant to IoT authentication:
Device manufacturerscannotalways have full confidence in all entities in their supply chain (for example, offshore assembly plants). Still, theycannotgive up the economic benefits of using low-cost suppliers and facilities. The TPM can be used at various points along the supply chain to verify that the device has not been incorrectly modified.
The TPMhas the capability to storethe keyssecurelyin the tamper-resistant hardware. The keys are generated within the TPM itself and are therefore protected from being retrieved by external programs. Even without harnessing the capabilities of a trusted hardware root and a secure boot, the TPM is just as valuable as a hardware key store. Private keys are protected by hardware and offer much better protection than a software key.
With TPM, you cant roll the key without destroying the identity of the chip and giving it a new one. Its like if you had a clone,yourclone would have the same physical characteristics as you, but theyre a different person in the end. Although the physical chip remains the same, your IoT solution has a new identity.
Some key differences between TPMs and symmetric keys (discussed further below) are as follows:
Symmetric Key Certification is a simple approach to authenticating a device with a Device Provisioning Service instance. This certification method is the Hello World experience for developers who are new to or do not have strict safety requirements. Device attestation using a TPM or an X.509 certificate is more secure and should be used for more stringent safety requirements.
Symmetric key enrollments also provide a great way for legacy devices with limited security features to boot into the cloud via Azure IoT.
The symmetric key attestation with the Device Provisioning Service is carried out using the same security tokens supported by IoT hubs to identify the devices. These security tokens are SAS (Shared Access Signature) tokens.
SAS tokens have a hashed signature created using a symmetric key. The signature shall be recreated by the Device Provisioning Service to verifywhether or notthe security token presented during the certification is authentic.
When the device certifies with an individual enrollment, the device uses the symmetric key defined in the individual enrollment entry to create a hashed signature for the SAS token.
Shared symmetric keys may beless secure than X.509 or TPM certificates because the same key is shared between the device and the cloud, which means that the key needs to be protected in two places.Designers usingsymmetric keyssometimeshardcode the clear (unencrypted) keys on the device, leaving the keys vulnerable, which is not a recommended practice
Properimplementation of IoT authenticationhasmany beneficial effects on IoT security. However, choosing the right method can be challenging, and the wrong choice can increase risks by tenfold.
Some riskscan be mitigated by securely storing the symmetric key on the deviceand following best practices around key storage,Its not impossible, butwhensymmetric keys areused solely,theycan beless secure then HSM, TPM, and X.509 implementations.
In the case of certificates, HSM, TPMs, and X.509applications, the main challenge is to prove possession of the key without revealing the keys private portion.
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How Trusted Internet Connections Is Focusing Telework with TIC 3.0 – FedTech Magazine
Safeguarding Telework in Federal Government
In April, CISA issuedinterim TIC 3.0 guidanceon telework security, which provides security capabilities for remote federal employees securely connecting to private agency networks and cloud environments.
The scope of the guidance was limited to scenarios in which teleworkers access sanctioned cloud services, according to CISA, but it was broadly supportive of different security architectures, includingVPNs, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) andzero-trust security environments.
When you think about TIC 3.0 and you think about the flexibility that it introduces into your environment, thats the mindset that we have to take going forward, Beth Cappello, deputy CIO at DHS, said during a recent webinar,MeriTalk reports. No longer can it be a traditional point-to-point brick and mortar fixed infrastructure approach.
READ MORE:How are agencies approaching cybersecurity automation?
When the Office of Management and Budget announcedthe Trusted Internet Connections initiativein 2007, officials hoped to slash the number of federal internet access points to no more than 50 and enhance network security. The TIC serves as a secure gateway between federal networks and external network connections, including connections to the internet.
However, since then, the nature of the network perimeter has become more amorphous as more agencies have migrated applications to cloud providers. Agencies complained thatthe TIC program inhibited their cloud migration efforts, and the White House and DHS began revamping the TIC initiative.
In December 2018, OMB first issued draft guidance to update the program to a version known as TIC 3.0. A year later, CISA issued new TIC 3.0 guidance to assist agencies moving from wide network perimeters to micro-perimeters around individual or small groups of assets,FedScoop reports.
Then in July, CISA released final guidance for TIC 3.0.Nextgov reports:
The recommendations included a reference architecture for agency implementation as well as the Security Capabilities Catalog. Even with the current guidance, agencies will need to remain cautious in how they implement TIC 3.0 relative to their unique environments so that they can securely leverage emerging and evolving technology, including SD-WAN and as-a-service cloud platforms.
TIC 3.0 adopts a flexible framework to address and support advanced security measures across branch offices, remote users, cloud and other service providers, mobile devices, etc.,according to the updated TIC program guidebook.
MORE FROM FEDTECH:What are the fundamentals of zero-trust security?
As Nextgov reports, the first policy release and the subsequent TIC 2.0 issued in 2012 focused on agencies headquarters and didnt give sufficient guidance for emerging technologies like cloud computing and mobile devices.
TIC 2.0 focused exclusively on securing an agencys perimeter by funneling all incoming and outgoing agency data through a TIC access point,according to CISA.
The new policy for TIC 3.0 focuses on strategy, architecture, and visibility, according to CISA, recognizing the need to account for multiple and diverse architectures rather than [a] single perimeter approach like TIC 2.0.
Consequently, TIC 3.0 divides agency architectures by trust zones, and it shifts the emphasis from a strictly physical network perimeter to the boundaries of each zone within an agency environment to ensure baseline security protections across dispersed network environments, the playbook states.
Such a shift is the most fundamental change from the legacy TIC program, according to CISA. TIC 3.0 is also descriptive, not prescriptive, and does not take a one-size-fits-all approach. On that note, the guidance allows agencies to take a risk-based approach to accommodate varying risk tolerances, and the playbook says that in cases where additional controls are necessary to manage residual risk, agencies are obligated to apply the controls or explore options for compensating controls that achieve the same protections to manage risks.
Additionally, TIC 3.0 is environment-agnostic and readily adaptable.
Perhaps most significantly, TIC 3.0 is designed to support cloud adoption, since it allows for a direct connection from the user to the cloud. TIC 3.0 also allows cloud service providers to seamlessly and transparently patch applications for users.
Another key use case enabled by TIC 3.0 is branch offices, which assumes there is a branch office of an agency, separate from the agency headquarters, that uses the main office for the majority of its services (including generic web traffic). TIC 3.0 supports agencies that want to enable software-defined WAN technologies.
And, perhaps in a bit of foresight, TIC 3.0 also supports remote users.
READ MORE:Find out how SIEM tools enhance federal cybersecurity.
That support was critical, and it explains whyCISA issued interim guidancein April to allow agencies to adapt TIC 3.0 for telework as the pandemic was becoming more widespread.
The guidance is intended only to address the current teleworking surge and is not meant to be part of the TIC 3.0 program set or to support a TIC 3.0 use case; it will be deprecated at the end of 2020.
The document is intended to provide general guidance to agencies to increase telework and collaboration capacity to meet the growing demands on their existing services. That may require an increase in bandwidth, VPN and cloud services, and the deployment of new cloud services and authorization of the use of nongovernment furnished equipment.
The guidance provides three methods for teleworkers to communicate with agency-sanctioned cloud services. Traditionally, teleworkers had set up a trusted connection to agency resources via technologies such as VPN or VDI. To do so at a large scale requires additional network resources and can lead to degraded performance, so the guidance notes that teleworkers can access cloud services directly with protections being applied on the provider and teleworker resources via transport layer security (TLS), VPN or VDI,FedScoop reports.
Policy enforcement placement and protections are applied at the CSP and on teleworker resources, the guidance states. Capabilities may be duplicated with those traditionally handled by agency campus services so long as policy enforcement parity is ensured.
Under a second approach, teleworkers first establish a protected connection to the agency campus and then make connections to cloud services via that connection.
Policy enforcement can be performed at the teleworker, agency campus, and CSP, according to the guidance. Teleworkers may establish the connection to agency campus resources for additional business functions alongside connections to the CSP.
However, teleworkers may see reduced performance because of increased network latency, stacked network encryption, increased likelihood for network congestion, concentrator licensing bottlenecks, and/or other resource exhaustion.
A third option allows teleworkers to access agency-sanctioned cloud resources through a cloud access security broker or another Security as a Service provider.
Security for teleworkers is continuing to evolve. Over the course of the pandemic, the Small Business Administration had to scale its network to handle a workforce of 20,000 personnel, about five times what it was before the coronavirus pandemic,Federal News Network reports. However, the office that issued personal identity verification cards at the agency had been shut down.
To help, SBA CISO James Saunders says the agency has used its cloud identity infrastructure to launch conditional access to put users on a trusted network using a trusted device to login using a username and password, the publication reports.
Meanwhile, the State Department is migrating to a zero trust-like solution, Robert Hankinson, the director of the agencys office IT infrastructure, tells Federal News Network. The agency already had classified systems to support remote access, firewalls and other equipment.
Through this process, we found that we owned already most of the equipment and the technology that we needed to make this reality. The difference was how it was configured, where they were positioned, how they were used, and the culture and the mindset around that, he says. Security for the Department of State was largely a castle-and-moat sort of thing big high walls, that everything sits on the inside.
Now, the State Department is thinking of shifting to zero trust as part of a larger smart infrastructure effort, Hankinson says.
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Is your business looking for an extra layer of security – here’s why a VPN may be the answer – TechRadar
VPNs have plenty of applications for home PC users, including bypassing geo-restrictions for streamed video content, safety while using a public Wi-Fi, and buying tickets for airline travel at a cheaper price (yes, really!).
A VPN, or virtual private network, can make these activities possible, as rather than connecting directly to the internet, a user connects to a server via an encrypted tunnel, and then in turn to the internet.
However, the benefits of a VPN go beyond home users, and can benefit businesses as well. And in this article we'll explain why business VPN use is on the up.
There are plenty of businesses that apply VPN technology for its remote workers. Remote workers often need to connect to company resources, such as documents or software on a company server - hence why remote access VPNs are useful.
Rather than having these accessed directly through the internet, it is considered more secure to make the connection through the encrypted tunnel of the VPN. This allows corporate assets to be accessed securely, and any business data that is transferred - either for an upload or a download - to be encrypted, and not out in the open for an ISP to analyze, or pirates to be trolling for.
This is even more important when the employee is doing their computing over a wireless connection. A wired connection is inherently more secure than a wireless one that introduces another point of potential insecurity. At least over a home connection through a router, the Wi-Fi can be setup with a password, and a security VPN protocol.
Most users use the WPA2 protocol, and while this was felt to be secure, in fact vulnerabilities have been identified for some years now, and the next generation replacement, WPA3 has not seen widespread deployment to date.
Many employees functioning remotely find it useful to leave their homes and lots work from their local coffee shop, park or public library. The potential for getting hacked is even more likely when over a public Wi-Fi connection. This is because many do not have any password protection, so data can be grabbed over the air. Even those public Wi-Fi connections that have a password, have all the users that day sharing the same password, make them quite simple to hack.
The solution to this gaping vulnerability is to have the remote employees connect to the corporate server via their VPN. This way, if the Wi-Fi connection gets hacked, any corporate data is not out in the open and rather is protected through the encryption of the VPN tunnel.
Another security worry is the tracking of employees. This is because anyone can be tracked through their IP address, raising concerns of corporate espionage from competing businesses.
Another benefit of connecting to the internet via a VPN server intermediary is that the IP address leads back to the VPN server and not the employee. This makes it less likely to be hacked and far more secure from malware, such as ransomware or viruses, keeping employees more secure and less likely to experience downtime and corporate data loss.
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A business connected to the cloud needs cloud-ready security, connectivity – Techgoondu
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The pandemic may have accelerated the transformation, but for many enterprises, the writing has been on the wall for a while, as applications moved to the cloud in recent years.
Its clear today that perimeter defences are no longer tenable in a world where people have to work from anywhere. Neither are legacy networks built before the cloud good enough for the cloud.
In this cloud-first world, there is no perimeter to speak of. Users are mobile and connect straight to the cloud apps. They do not connect back to a data centre, so what is the perimeter defences still protecting?
At the same time, the old hub-and-spoke topology used to build corporate networks is outdated and costly. Worse, in a cloud-based world, it is also laggy, creating a bad experience for users.
Understandably, they demand the same experience they get from a consumer cloud service, which is fast and easy to use. So, for a business, why continue to backhaul traffic and pay for an architecture that wasnt designed for the cloud?
The biggest headache of all cybersecurity is not going away, either. The breaches continue because zero-day vulnerabilities, botnets and threats hiding in SSL bypass the typical Internet security checks easily.
It is impossible to inspect all the traffic because your security stacks usually have performance limitations. How can your appliances keep up as more traffic comes along, especially in this critical period?
Rethinking access and security
A new approach is needed. Firstly, businesses have to move security to the cloud. In other words, all users and locations will adhere to the same policies wherever they go, in a zero trust environment where you always have to prove who you are to access digital assets.
Secondly, businesses have to look for a cloud-ready network platform, so Internet connections are direct, fast and secure. Say no to backhauling and appliance costs ask for simpler network administration.
Thirdly, pick a cloud security vendor that offers the ultimate security stack, which makes use of multiple technologies to stop more threats. Scale up as you need, even inspecting unlimited amounts of traffic passing through in an unpredictable world.
For this, Zscaler has built a security cloud platform that processes up to 120 billion transactions per day at peak periods. Threats detected are instantly shared and blocked across the platform.
Zscaler has also developed a platform that offers unlimited capacity. With more than 150 data centres, performance from any location is lightning fast. In other words, a great cloud experience.
Delivering a consumer-like experience
This new approach would enable businesses to deliver what customers and employees both expect a fast, seamless and secure experience when they interact with your business.
Zscalers B2B solution enables users to connect to your cloud applications with the ease of any consumer-like applications without the business risk. This works with apps that are hosted in the data centre, or in the private or public clouds.
Key here is Zscalers zero-trust network access (ZTNA) architecture, which is tied to business policies to securelyconnect an authenticated customer to an authorized app. It does so without ever exposing the app to the Internet or bringing the customer onto yournetwork.
As this is being done, the impact on your network resources is limited, so you can scale up without worrying about the complexity and friction that come with legacy network and security setups.
With this, you can deliver access to modern cloud apps without worrying about the legacy network issues that may have been giving users a bad experience, especially when they are working remotely today and still have to connect back to your data centre before heading to the cloud.
With Zscaler, the new approach also eliminates the attack surface. Customers no longer come into your network and they are no longer exposed to the open Internet.
Of course, migration is never easy. In a way, the current pandemic has forced many business to reconsider how they deliver their IT services. It is presenting an opportunity for businesses to transform.
Taking the first step is important as they head into a future where the cloud is truly the platform for business applications to be delivered securely and seamlessly.
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The 6 key races you haven’t heard of that may help decide how we secure our elections – POLITICO
The job is on the ballot in six states this year, and the campaigns there reflect larger anxieties around election integrity and voter access. Usually sleepy affairs, these races are turning hotly political and in some cases, even personal.
These people, virtually none of whom are widely known beyond their families and their states capitol buildings, will be centerstage in any contested election. Barring extreme delays, newly elected secretaries won't play any role in overseeing their states other 2020 contests. But these officials will help decide how elections are run and how votes counted going forward.
In a handful of states, the secretaries will play a role in the redistricting process for state and federal legislative seats. Secretaries are responsible for overseeing the election and ensuring votes are counted fairly in all but 10 states.
Edgardo Corts, Virginias former election supervisor, said the increase in attention paid to secretaries work during this campaign season in many states is like night and day.
Interviews with nine candidates in the 2020 races taking place in Missouri, Montana, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and West Virginia reveal intense clashes over how citizens should vote and how states should protect the process. West Virginia challenger Natalie Tennant accused Republican Secretary of State Mac Warner of making the state the laughingstock of election security for embracing internet voting. Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft scoffed at his Democratic opponent Yinka Faletis support of a more targeted system for double-checking ballots, saying Faleti doesn't seem very well informed.
Some individual secretaries have been lightning rods in past elections, from the hanging chad debacle of 2000, when Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris refused to extend the states recount, to Democrats accusations in 2004 that Ohios secretary tilted the vote toward President George W. Bush by restricting ballot access. During Georgia governors race two years ago, Democrats alleged that then-Secretary of State Brian Kemp put his thumb on the scale to assure his own victory against Stacey Abrams, including by changing polling sites and purging voter rolls.
Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft. | Mel Evans/AP Photo
Thanks to the coronavirus crisis, debates over mail-in ballots, reports of aggressive foreign interference and Trumps suggestions that he would blame a loss on widespread fraud, more Americans than ever before are paying attention to even minute logistics of voting this year. Thirty-five states are facing election-related lawsuits with allegations ranging from having too few ballot drop-boxes, to not doing enough to avoid long polling lines, to requiring notarized mail-in ballot envelopes.
The tensions are evident on the campaign trail. Secretaries challengers regularly blast them for failing to help local officials block hackers, allowing people to vote online and leaving voter registration databases vulnerable to intruders.
In Missouri, Faleti penned an op-ed calling Ashcrofts mail-in voting policies derelict and dangerous to our democracy. In Montana, Democratic candidate Bryce Bennett delivered a stump speech criticizing the retiring Republican incumbent for holding back election grants from counties for unspecified projects. And in Washington state, Democratic nominee Gael Tarleton took to Twitter to accuse Republican Secretary Kim Wyman of standing by while Trump undermined faith in our states electoral system..
Though none of these states will decide the presidential election, their heated campaigns reveal sharp disagreements about how to safeguard elections, with the winners likely to enact policies that set precedents for other states. In particular, two races on opposite sides of the country in Washington and West Virginia showcase the contentiousness of the moment.
During a virtual debate in Washington state in July, the candidates sparred over a new centralized voter registration database the brainchild of Secretary Wyman. Tarleton, a state representative, argued it had been plagued with failures and outages. Wyman, who is running for her third four-year term, defended the database, saying that no system was perfect.
The federally funded database, called VoteWA, includes features such as real-time mail-in ballot tracking and more advanced address-verification measures. But the $9.5 million system also experienced major bugs when it debuted ahead of an August 2019 primary, and Tarleton said in an interview that it produced serious problems in some counties that November.
Some part of VoteWA has failed in every election conducted since it was rolled out, Tarleton said. There is a system problem either a design or a performance problem and we have to find out why.
Wyman said her office was still stabilizing VoteWA and that it had experienced the same growing pains as any other new technology. She described it as a focus for her next term, while calling the system a model for other states.
Trumps attacks on mail-in voting have also become a campaign issue.
Wyman, a moderate Republican who spent 12 years as Thurston Countys top election official, has received national attention for defending her states vote-by-mail tradition amid Trumps attacks. Tarleton and state Democrats, who hope to pick up a secretary seat that has been in Republican hands for almost 60 years, say Wyman hasnt stood up to the president enough.
Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman. | Ted S. Warren/AP Photo
Tarleton, a former Port of Seattle commissioner and Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, also accused Wyman of not doing enough to provide guidance to local election officials.
Tarleton said county officials have complained that Wyman failed to offer them guidance for spending their portions of their initial federal election security grants, resulting in an uncoordinated patchwork of computer system upgrades. Wyman said she left it up to the counties to set their spending priorities because they have different needs.
One thing they agree on: constituents should not be casting ballots over the internet.
Wyman cites the expert consensus that no safe way currently exists to do so. She acknowledged that her position might be unpopular in her state, which offers the technology to military and overseas voters. But Wyman, herself a former overseas voter (she lived in Europe for two years while her husband served at various U.S. Army posts), said her opposition was rooted in a commitment to protect every ballot: I dont want to give any voter the false impression that their ballot is coming in in a secure [way] electronically. Tarleton has made similar points.
And both say there are still gaps in election security that they have plans to address.
If re-elected, Wyman said shed prioritize increasing election security aid to counties. She plans to expand a system she created in 2019 through which experts conducted cyber assessments in all of the states 39 counties. Wymans office said they were able to work with local officials in many counties to make improvements. She wants to offer even more help to smaller counties that are lucky to have an IT person in their county, let alone in their elections division.
Tarleton, who has spearheaded several election security bills in the legislature, said shed create public-private partnerships modeled on homeland-security organizations that she worked on in her previous role as a contractor for federal defense and intelligence agencies. Two examples she cited: creating a mutual-aid partnership among Northwestern states to protect election infrastructure and offering cyber certifications for election officials.
In February, Natalie Tennant, the Democratic nominee in West Virginia, went after incumbent Mac Warner over flaws in the mobile phone app the state used in a pilot program in 2018. Warner, she tweeted, should tell us were our votes secure and can they be changed?
Tennant is trying to retake the secretary job after Warner unseated her in 2016, and she has denounced him for embracing internet voting.
In 2018, Warner made West Virginia the first state to partner with Voatz, a Boston-based company that makes a mobile voting app, in a general election. The app was limited to military service members and overseas residents, but Warner supports expanding it to people whose disabilities prevent them from mailing in ballots. Though there were no reported problems with the app in West Virginia, security experts have repeatedly uncovered flaws in Voatzs platform and other internet voting systems. (Voatz has dismissed these findings as unrealistic.)
Tennant said Warner is now known for making West Virginia the laughingstock of election security over internet voting.
Warner remains unmoved. He says the authors of detailed technical rebukes are simply zealots for paper ballots who are taking potshots at a system without providing a solution. He compared them to the people who were against the horseless carriage.
West Virginians are very much behind this, Warner said. He noted that state lawmakers voted unanimously to continue the mobile voting pilot this year and expand it to voters with disabilities.
They wouldnt have done that had they had legitimate concerns about security, he said. (The state later switched vendors after the release of two sharply critical Voatz audits.) New Jersey and Delaware also offered limited internet voting in this years primaries in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo
Tennant supports internet voting in theory in 2010, she defended her own pilot project from criticisms about security concerns but argues that Warner is working with an untrustworthy company.
Were dealing with a secretary of state who will say anything and do anything to make himself look great, she said in an interview.
Like their counterparts in the Pacific Northwest, Warner and Tennant are at loggerheads over whether the state is doing enough to help beleaguered county clerks fend off hackers.
Warner said that when he took office, he got an earful from counties about unmet needs and quickly set up a system of local field representatives who serve as his liaisons. Now, he said, there is constant communication.
The clerks know that, when they have a concern or an idea, we will listen, he said.
But Tennant said Warners representatives often lack expertise. Having a field rep is not good enough, she said. She wants West Virginia to copy Illinois network of cyber navigators, security experts who provide detailed help and recommendations. The program has been well received by local officials and members of Congress.
The same debates seen in Washington and West Virginia are playing out across the country.
In Missouri, Secretary Ashcroft and Faleti, his Democratic challenger, have sparred over whether Ashcroft has done enough to support counties.
Faleti accused Ashcrofts office of sitting on the lions share of the $7.2 million in election security funds that Congress provided in 2018, potentially discouraging lawmakers from appropriating more. Ashcroft said his office held back some of the funds to pay for long-term security monitoring.
We didnt want to just go in there, say, Hey, right now you're good, and then send them back out to the wolves, Ashcroft said.
Faleti, meanwhile, called Missouris aging voter registration database pretty vulnerable to hacking and pushed for risk-limiting audits, which use statistical formulas to double-check a relatively small subset of ballots, rather than recounting a larger number of them. Ashcroft rejected that idea, saying, I don't think the people of the state would suggest that we should be reviewing fewer ballots after elections than we are right now.
In Montana, Democratic challenger Bryce Bennett, a state senator, offered similar criticism of the outgoing Republican incumbent, Corey Stapleton, whose deputy Christi Jacobsen is the GOP nominee.
I've heard from counties big and small that they're not getting the help and the support and the resources they need from our secretary of state, Bennett said. He said Stapleton and, by extension, Jacobsen mostly sat on the sidelines as cyber threats surged. (Jacobsens campaign did not respond to an interview request.)
Several candidates vowed to expand their states partnerships with cyber experts. Bennett pledged to work with the folks who have gone toe-to-toe with the people who are attacking our elections here in Montana and across the country.
The outcomes of these contests will shape the future of election security nationwide.
States are definitely examining each others practices in search of better solutions, said Corts, the former Virginia election chief and now an election security adviser at the Brennan Center for Justice. Corts cited the migration to paper-based voting machines (which he helped spearhead in 2017), the growing use of a national voter-list maintenance system and the spread of risk-limiting audits.
Voters are paying attention, too. Merrill, the Connecticut secretary, said voters ask her every day why Connecticut hasnt adopted Washington States model of automatic mail-ballot distribution.
People are watching other states [and] what they're doing, Merrill said.
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The major players in the Internet Security Software Market areJuniper Networks, Inc., Trend Micro Inc., Symantec Corporation, IBM Corporation, Kaspersky Lab, McAfee Inc., Cipher Cloud, CA Technologies, Cisco system Inc., Websense, Inc.( Forcepoint), Fortinet, Inc., Sophos Ltd., Dell, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., SafeNet, Inc., and Cyren LtdWe also need a market analysis section solely dedicated to major players such as where analysts give us an insight into the financial statements of all the major players, along with product benchmarking and SWOT analysis. Global Internet Security Software market with great emphasis on its market share, recent developments, business overview, market served, and growth strategies.
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Internet Security Software Market: Research Methodology
Coherent Market Insights follows a comprehensive research methodology focused on providing the most precise market analysis. The company leverages a data triangulation model which helps company to gauge the market dynamics and provide accurate estimates. Key components of the research methodologies followed for all our market reports include:
As part of Primary research, our analysts interviewed a number of primary sources from the demand and supply sides of the global Internet Security Software Market. This helped them to obtain both quantitative and qualitative data and information. On the demand side of the global Internet Security Software Market are end-users, whereas on the supply side are distributors, vendors, and manufacturers.
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During our Secondary research, we collect information from different sources such as databases, regulatory bodies, gold and silver-standard websites, articles by recognized authors, certified publications, white papers, investor presentations and press releases of companies, and annual reports.
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Internet Security Software Market: Regional Analysis
This part of the report includes detailed information on the market in various regions. Each region offers different scope for markets because every region has different government policies and other factors. The regions included in this report areNorth America, Europe, The Asia Pacific, and the Middle East and Africa. Information about the different areas helps the reader to understand better the global market.
Complete SWOT Analysis of the Global Internet Security Software Market
SWOT analysisis one technique that is quite that helps to gain an insight into the past and find a solution for the benefit of current or future blemish, useful for existing companies as well as the new plan. SWOT-analysis helps reduce weaknesses while maximizing the strong side of the company. Its can also be used when it comes to achieving certain goals in non-profit organizations or private companies. This tool can be used to make a reconsideration during the study.
PESTEL Analysis :
APESTEL analysisor more recently named PESTELE is a framework or tool used by marketers to analyse and monitor the macro-environmental (external marketing environment) factors that have an impact on an organisation. The result of which is used to identify threats and weaknesses which are used in a SWOTanalysis.
Opportunities come in various forms, then the value of doing a PESTEL analysis. PESTEL stands for:
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How SWOT Analysis Is Important for Internet Security Software Market ?
There are three steps to follow in this analysis.
In this stage, and we collect all the information regarding the first two internal factors, strengths and weaknesses. However, this information collection can be done in a number of different ways. One-to-one interview or a group discussion can be carried to gather information. There will be a number of different views, questions, and issues related to these elements.
Here, we can make a list of all the opportunities that it may encounter in the future. It can make another list of all the future possible threats within the organization.
In this stage, the plan of action will have carried out to meet these opportunities and to secure the company from the threats. In this stage, the organization makes sure that they can maintain the strengths, change or stop the weaknesses, prioritize opportunism and minimize threats.
If you are not doing a SWOT analysis for your business or new start-ups you will face some of these Problems or Issues:
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Get In Depth Analysis Of How Covid-19 Is Impacting The Internet Security Software Market - Unica News
Study finds over 4-in-10 WFH employees in SEA find it hard to switch-off after work – Backend News
The latest study from Kaspersky titled More connected than ever before: how we build our digital comfort zones found out that 46% of respondents from Southeast Asia (SEA) find it harder to switch off after work than when they had to travel to their physical offices. This is four notches higher than the global result of 42%. A majority of them (62%) also disclosed their unease towards the increasing amount of meetings taking place online.
Conducted by the global cybersecurity company among 760 interviewees from SEA last May, the survey also unmasked the worries of remote employees in the time of pandemic where the majority of the offices remain closed due to physical restrictions. Amongst these heightened concerns are about their online security. This was triggered by two factors.
First is due to the nature of the confidential work they are conducting from home according to 62% of the interviewees, 13 points higher than the global result with only 49%. The second factor for 57% of the respondents is that their home technology is not as secure as their offices technology which is nine notches higher than the worlds view at 48%. These respondents expressed their worry that using their own computers may risk the safety of their work data.
Red tape is main barrier to cybersecurity initiatives in industrial sector, Kaspersky found
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Majority of our survey respondents from the region are working from home during this period where lockdown measures are still in place because of the pandemic. It is understandable and welcome progress that a lot of them are more concerned about their online security given that our previous research showed 52% of businesses agreed that employees are securitys weakest link, said Yeo Siang Tiong, general manager for Southeast Asia at Kaspersky.
Digital security awareness
There are bright spots, though, as 62% of the surveyed individuals from SEA professed that working from home has made them more aware of their digital security and 56% noted that their employers have provided strict instructions about protecting confidential work information online.
However, there are still over 4-in-10 who shrug off security and assume that everything is protected and safe. Almost half (42%) also confessed that they share the internet connection with other people they live with in shared accommodation and are not sure about the security and safety of their devices as they are not aware of how to securely use the internet.
The current remote work set-up is here to stay. For employees mental wellness, it is important to create a conducive environment and work only during office hours. For enterprises, incidents such as the Wannacry attack and the Bangladesh Bank Heist should remain as reminders that staff can be an attack vector exploited through old but still effective social engineering tricks. Businesses should now look into training technology that applies AI to the responses from the trainees and adapt by challenging them with an appropriate level of training and reinforcement, rather than using the same course material across everyone in a dull way, said Yeo.
Kaspersky Adaptive Online Training (KAOT) is a unique solution among security awareness training courses, combining content based on Kasperskys 20+ years experience in cybersecurity and advanced learning and development methodology developed by Area9 Lyceum on Rhapsode, the worlds first four-dimensional adaptive learning platform.
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5 Ways to Secure Your Home Network – The Good Men Project
We are in the 21st century and the internet has become a necessity. All our devices require a working internet connection. Even in the pandemic when everyone is working from home, the internet increases our productivity. It does not differentiate among age groups. It is for everyone.
However, internet security is very crucial these days. It is easier to fall prey to nefarious activities when your connection is not safeguarded. Hackers have malicious intent and always look out for easy targets. Take the example of your home network. All the members of your family may use the internet through their smartphones, PCs, tablets, and laptops. On top, you may have IoT products that link to the Wi-Fi. Just a small network vulnerability can give hackers a chance to access all the things in your house. You could possibly lose your financial information, bank accounts, and credit card details. Most importantly, these hackers may pose a serious threat to the safety of your children and their digital avatars.
Internet security is a serious concern and thankfully, many internet providers are offering a solution. For example, if you subscribe to Cox cable TV and internet bundles, you get a free security suite. On the other hand, if your internet provider doesnt give a free security suite, then there are multiple things you can do to secure your home network. Here are the ways to secure your internet connection from malicious attacks:
Change the Name of your Wi-Fi
It is the simplest thing you can do to make your home network a bit safe. Change the SSID. It stands for Service Set Identifier and shows the name of your network. Many router companies give their products a default SSID. In the majority of cases, it is the name of the company or an excessively used term, like admin. When a computer having a wireless connection searches for a wireless network nearby, it shows all the networks available in a specific range publicly broadcasting their SSIDs. As a result, hackers have a better chance of accessing your network. Therefore, an ideal approach to prevent this from happening is by changing the networks SSID. Keeping a neutral network name will not disclose any personal information and will ultimately throw the hackers off your trail.
Set a Unique Password
People make a common mistake in choosing simple passwords. They always go for the ones that are easier to remember. However, common catchphrases, your birth dates, or your phone numbers can be traced. Therefore, you have to set a unique password for your home Wi-Fi network. Ideally, it should be a combination of upper case and lower case letters. Just keep the first-word capital, followed by lower case letters, and end on a number. Passwords like these are harder to crack.
Get a VPN
VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. A VPN is a legal means to hide your identity and save yourself from the attacks of hackers and spammers. There is a lot that it can offer. First, it replaces your IP address with the IP address of a remote server. Second, VPN encrypts your data. Even when your data gets leaked, no one will be able to access it. VPN acts as an extra security barrier, protecting your financial transactions and other confidential communication online.
Turn on Network Encryption
We all use WhatsApp. While sending texts, pictures, videos, and voice notes to our loved ones, the app keeps on telling us that all data is end-to-end encrypted. What does this mean? Encryption of data means that you code it one way or the other so that no one can access it. WhatsApp has end-to-end encryption, referring to the fact that the data you send or receive is safe.
All routers by-default have this option. You can turn it on by opening the router settings on your computer or smartphone. If you have the latest technology router, you might have an option to do it with the help of a smartphone application.
Invest in a Good Firewall
Network intrusions are common. Almost all online businesses spend a great fortune on ensuring their online security. They invest in firewalls, antivirus software, and VPN. Having a firewall installed on your computer prevents any harmful intrusion. There are tons of options in the market. Some of them are free while others might cost you a one-time or monthly fee. Therefore, make sure you have a good firewall on your system.
Final Verdict
By following these simple steps, you can secure your home network. Keep a strong password for your Wi-Fi and dont enter your personal information, such as social security number, drivers license, or even date of birth online if you think that the source isnt credible.
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How To Make Peace With Your Internet Passwords – Forbes
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Weve all been there. Eager to quickly log-in to check your bank balance or to checkout while shopping online, you reach the enter password step and your mind goes blank.
The next (weary) step is to reset your password. To make it easier to remember the next time, its tempting to fall back on to the trusty name and number combo that you use for your email, social media accounts and work laptop.
But resist, as this could open you up to all kinds of problems if one of your accounts is hacked.
To help you make your internet passwords simpler and more secure, here we take a look at why its so important to get them right, the dos and donts of choosing passwords, and the tools that could make your online life easier.
We store so much information about ourselves online, whether in our emails, on social media platforms, via online banking or on shopping sites, that its important to password-protect accounts.
This means that to access these accounts, youll usually need to enter both your email address or username and a password of your choosing.
Unfortunately, there are cyber criminals who are looking to exploit weaknesses in your online accounts, in order to steal data about you so they can commit identity fraud or to gain access to your bank account.
So, its important to choose a password thats hard to guess to prevent leaving yourself open to being hacked online.
To keep your online accounts secure, follow our dos and donts when deciding on your password.
A password manager is a piece of software that stores your internet passwords securely for you. This means that you dont have to remember the passwords for every website you access just one master password to access them all.
Some password managers will also help you to choose the most secure passwords for each site by generating suggested passwords made up of a combination of numbers, letters and symbols.
There are free and paid-for password managers available. You may have one automatically included with your internet browser, device or computer, such as Google Password Manager and iCloud Keychain, plus those included with Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer.
While these offer password storage, and sometimes extras such as storage for addresses and payment information, they are usually limited to certain devices and browsers and only offer basic features.
Extra features that may be included with paid-for password managers include:
If youre considering signing up to a dedicated password manager service, its important to understand what the different options offer.
To help you to decide the best password manager for your needs, weve listed some of the most popular choices below with their key features.
Dashlane calls itself the app that makes the internet easier, claiming that it can can radically simplify your whole life online. It will create, save and autofill strong passwords for your online accounts.
Its free plan allows you to use it on one device and store up to 50 passwords which can be accessed using one master password. It will also autofill forms and payment details, alert you when sites you use suffer security breaches, has two-factor authentication and you can securely share up to five accounts.
Upgrading to its premium plan will cost you $3.33 a month (around 2.62) or $39.99 a year (around 31.43), which gives you all of the features of the free account, plus unlimited passwords and devices, dark web monitoring and alerts, and VPN for WiFi protection.
Theres also a family plan which allows you to invite up to five other people to use it for $4.99 a month (around 3.93) and business plans from $5 per user, per month (around 3.94). Find out more here
LastPass says that it remembers all your passwords across every device for free. Youll need to install its browser extension, create a strong master password and create a manager vault where you can add, view and manage items.
Its free plan allows access on all devices, one-to-one password sharing, will save, generate and fill passwords, as well as alerting you to weak passwords, and has secure notes, security challenges and multi-factor authentication.
Upgrading to its premium plan for 2.60 a month will give you everything from the free account plus one-to-many password sharing, emergency access (ensuring someone else has access to important information in case of an emergency), advanced multi-factor options (such as fingerprint authentication), priority tech support, LastPass for applications, and dark web monitoring.
A family plan for 3.40 a month allows up to six users to use the subscription. Business plans are available too. Find out more here
Keeper says that it is the leading cybersecurity platform for preventing password-related data breaches and cyberthreats and promises that if you use it, youll never have to remember or worry about passwords again.
You can sign up to a free 30-day trial of Keeper Unlimited and then enjoy limited features for free after this on one mobile device only, including the ability to generate passwords, unlimited password storage, identity and payment storage, and two-factor authentication.
For 2.49 a month or 29.99 a year you can sign up to Keeper Unlimited after your trial, which will give you use and access on unlimited devices, unlimited password storage, unlimited identity and payment storage, fingerprint and face ID log-in, secure record sharing, emergency access, a web app and 24/7 support.
There are more expensive options that include secure file storage, and dark web monitoring, as well as family plans from 5.99 a month and business plans from 3.33 per user, per month. Find out more here
1Password says it is The worlds most-loved password manager. It says that it will allow you to log in to sites and fill forms securely with a single click.
You can try a 30-day free trial and then it costs $2.99 a month (around 2.35). For this youll get access on unlimited devices with apps for Mac, iOS, Windows, Android, Linux, and Chrome OS, unlimited passwords, 1GB document storage, 24/7 email support, two-factor authentication, a travel mode (which removes sensitive data from your devices when you cross borders, then restores access with a click when you arrive), and a 365-day history to allow you to restore deleted passwords.
Theres also a family plan which allows you to share with up to five users for $4.99 a month (around 3.91) and a business plan for $7.99 per user, per month (around 6.27). Find out more here
RoboForm says that, as a user, you will never need to remember or type your passwords again and calls itself one-click convenience.
Theres a free version, available on a range of browsers, which will store an unlimited number of log-ins, automatically fill in web forms, audit passwords, save passwords for applications, securely send logins, and manage bookmarks. It also has strong encryption and emergency access.
Its Everywhere account costs $1.99 a month (around 1.57), billed annually, and includes all of the features of the free account, plus access across all browsers and devices, Cloud back-up, two-factor authentication, a secure shared folder, emergency access and priority 24/7 support.
Theres also a family plan for up to five users for $3.98 (around 3.13) and business plans from $29.95 per user, per year (around 23.52), based on a one-year subscription. Find out more here
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Five Types of Cyber Security for Organizational Safety – Analytics Insight
It is estimated that by the year 2021, the global economy would bear the loss of US$6 trillion due to cyber attacks.
Life without the web is hard to imagine. Over the past decade, an exponential increase in the usage of the Internet has been observed. With smartphones and Laptops becoming part of everyday activity, internet consumption has also increased. Humans are just one click away to gain knowledge about everything. With the advent of the World Wide Web in 1995, the technological world has already stepped into an era of revolution. However, despite many attributes of the Internet, one major challenge observed by almost all the enterprises is possible cyber-attacks and malware. Reports suggest that by the year 2021, the total loss in the global economy would be US$6 million due to cyber-attacks.
Thats why a strategic approach must be formulated to mitigate cyber-attacks. In this article, we will observe five types of cybersecurity techniques, which will help in reducing the cyber attack amongst enterprises and organizations.
Thecritical infrastructure cybersecuritytechnique is deployed to secure the systems that have the critical infrastructure. They are systems on which the societies heavily rely on. These include- Electricity grid, Water Purification, Traffic lights, Shopping centers, and hospitals. They are not directly linked with a possible cyber infringement but can act as a platform through which the cyber malware can happen to the endpoints that these systems are connected to.
To mitigate the possibility of cyber malware or reduce cyber attacks, the organizations responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure must access the vulnerable points for protecting the businesses that they are liable with. Organizations that utilize the critical infrastructure must alsoevaluatethe amount of damage caused due to cyber attacks. These organizations must have a contingency plan that would help their businesses to bear no brunt of the cyber attacks.
Network securityis a technique that enables organizations to secure computer networks from intruders, targeted attackers, and opportunistic malware. As the Internet has an assortment of networks associated with various websites, it is often observed that the organizations become targeted with unauthorized intrusion, with malicious intent. Also, as many websites contain third party cookies, the users activities are tracked. Sometimes this might prove helpful for organizations to grow their businesses, but often customers become prey to fraud and sexual exploitation. Hence to counter the cyber attacks and malware associated with the network, organizations must deploy a security program to monitor the internal network and infrastructure. Experts have suggested leveraging Machine learning technology that will alert the authorities in case of abnormal traffic. The organizations must continue to upgrade their network security by implementing policies that can thwart cyber-attacks.
Expertssuggest the following methods for upgraded network security:
Extra Logins
New Passwords
Antivirus programs
Firewalls
Incognito Mode
Monitored Internet access
Encryption
Most of the organizations are now inclined towards utilizing artificial intelligence to improve their businesses, enhance customer experience, and for efficient operations. With the plethora of data available at each step of organizational set-up, it becomes difficult for organizations to store these data in physical form. Also, it is observed that often this data is unstructured and is derived from unknown sources, which can cause a potential threat to the organizations network. Hence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud present their customers with a cloud computing platform, where the users can store, and monitor data, by implementing a security tool.
Reportssuggest that on-premise environments are highly prone to cyber malware. By integrating the system with a cloud security platform, the users will be rendered with the secured data, thus mitigating the possibility of a cyber-attack.
The Internet of things is being observed to be the next tool for the technological revolution. A report by Bain and Company has estimated the market size for IoT to expand by US$520 billion by the year 2021. With the help of itssecurity network, IoT provides the user with a variety ofcritical and non-critical appliancessuch as the appliances, sensors, printers, and wifi-routers amongst routers.
The report suggests that one of the main obstacles for implementing IoT in any organization is the threat to security. By integrating the system with IoT security, organizations are provided with insightful analytics, legacy embedded systems, and secure network.
The users get infatuated with different applications, which include hardware, software, and devices. But an application becomes equally prone to cyber-attack or malware like the networks.Application securitythwarts the cyber-security infringement by adopting the hardware and software methods at the development phase of the project. With the help of an application security network, the companies and organizations can detect the sensitive data set and secure them with specific applications about the datasets.
Some of themethodsassociated with application security are:
Anti-virus Program
Firewalls
Encryption Programs
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