IRVINE, CA — (Marketwired) — 10/16/13 — This October marks the tenth annual National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), encouraging organizations to focus on online safety. Garret Grajek, Chief Technology Officer at SecureAuth, offers enterprises three tips to prevent their corporate data from being hacked.
„2013 has been full of advancements and changes that significantly alter enterprises- security needs and how they manage employees who use their own mobile devices at work, or BYOD,“ commented Grajek. „At first, the focus was solely on managing the devices, but after Edward Snowden-s shocking exposé and Kalinin-s attack on financials, including NASDAQ, securing identities, cloud resources, and mobile apps has become paramount.“
Grajek recommends the following to better secure online identities and enterprise information.
1. More consumers are accessing corporate applications from their mobile devices for work-related functions, such as email and collaboration tools. Businesses should focus on securing the applications with two-factor authentication rather than devices, which enables users to access an app from any device without requiring hardware control.
2. Companies often relinquish their internal control of employee or customer identities. This practice has not only been proven to be unwise by like Living Social, Evernote, and LinkedIn; but it is also incredibly costly for companies. Instead, enterprises need to uphold the management of identities, utilizing the same on-premise credentials for authenticated access into Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps, and other corporate resources.
3. Hard tokens have always been common for authentication, but are also costly and cumbersome to maintain. Modern methods of authentication that increase security as well as ease-of-use are instead necessary. There are many different authentication mechanisms available, such as SMS, telephony, email, and PUSH OTPs that facilitate rapid first-time registration; as well as more advanced forms of authentication, like to decrease friction in subsequent authentications.
Grajek is available for interviews by contacting Gina Ray at 949-370-0941 or .
Located in Irvine, California, SecureAuth is a technology leader in providing single secured access to mobile, cloud, web, and network resources, serving over 10 million users worldwide. The SecureAuth IdP all-in-one, completely scalable solution delivers to IT departments a simplified way of managing and enforcing access based on existing user entitlements. For the latest insight on enterprise security, follow the , follow @SecureAuth on Twitter, or visit for additional information.
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