Tag: identity

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: laurawaltham. During the pandemic, millions of people have made the leap to digital banking. Identity analytics can help banks provide a delightful customer experience while keeping fraudsters out in the cold. By Glenn Smith, EMEA Head of AML and UKI Head of Fraud at SAS Fraud is often seen as a cost centre for banks, but there’s an opportunity for fraud teams to become a driver of better customer experience (CX) – and here’s how. The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically accelerated customer adoption of digital banking services, which is a dream come true for digital transformation ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Brendan Burns. Recent incidents from ransomware to supply chain compromises have shown both the interconnectedness of our digital world and the critical need to secure these digital assets from attackers, criminals, and other hostile third parties. To achieve this, our customers need Zero Trust security and least privilege access for users and resources. This becomes even more important in the context of a customer’s partners who may require continuous access to a customer’s environment to provide management and support services. As organizations migrate to the cloud and engage service providers (internal or external) to manage Azure ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amplify Admin UI now supports importing existing Amazon Cognito User Pools and Identity Pools. This means you can link your Cognito User Pool and Identity Pool resources to your Amplify app to take advantage of authorization scenarios for your data model, and manage users and groups directly from the Admin UI. With Cognito User Pools linked, you can reference the imported User Pool when defining authorization rules on their data model. This allows you to configure your multi-platform app to have separate app client IDs for each platform (eg. web and mobile). You’ll also be able to ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Password-based access control alone is not considered secure enough, and many organizations are adopting multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO) as a de facto standard to prevent unauthorized access to systems and data. SSO frees up time and resources for both administrators and end users from the painful process of password-based credential management. MFA capability adds an extra layer of protection, improving organizational security and confidence. Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully-managed cloud data warehouse that provides browser-based plugins for JDBC/ODBC drivers, which helps you easily implement SSO capabilities added with MFA to secure ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Cindy Turner. From sanitizing wipes to romantic encounters, the pandemic turned 2020 into a record-breaking year for scams – which are often linked to identity theft and fraud. No one knows this better than employees of the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). The ITRC was flooded with requests in 2020, including 1.1 million website visits and 11,000 contact center requests. How did they keep up with the explosive growth in demand? Say hello to ViViAN, the newest identity theft assistant on the ITRC team. ViViAN, by the way, is not just any assistant – she’s ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. © Laurenz Albe 2021Sometimes customers ask me about the best choice for auto-generated primary keys. In this article, I’ll explore the options and give recommendations.Why auto-generated primary keys?Every table needs a primary key. In a relational database, it is important to be able to identify an individual table row. If you wonder why, search the internet for the thousands of questions asking for help with removing duplicate entries from a table.You are well advised to choose a primary key that is not only unique, but also never changes during the lifetime of a table row. This is ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Kapil Tandon. Identity authentication is a crucial part of any fraud protection and access management service. That is why Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection and Microsoft Azure Active Directory work well together to provide customers a comprehensive authentication seamless access experience. In this blog of our fraud trend series, we explore how proper authentication prevents fraud and loss before it happens by blocking unauthorized or illegitimate access to the information and services provided. Check out our previous blogs in this series where we explore fraud in the food service industry, holiday fraud, and account ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Mark Nunnikhoven. By Mark Nunnikhoven, Distinguished Cloud Strategist – Lacework This is our fourth and final blog post celebrating AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)‘s 10th anniversary, where we give you top recommendations on IAM from AWS Heroes and AWS Partner Network (APN) Ambassadors. In Part 1 of the series, Rowan Udell covered how to balance developer innovation with the principle of least privilege and elaborated on IAM resource IDs. In Part 2, Ben Bridts showed how the IAM visual editor makes policy creation easier and explained the benefits of using federation over IAM ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now supports policy conditions to help manage permissions for AWS services that access your resources. Many AWS services require access to your internal resources to perform tasks, and they often use their own service identity called a service principal to achieve this. Using the new service principal conditions, it is simple to author rules that enforces a rule for all your service principals, or excludes service principals from certain permission rules that are intended only for your own identities. For example, to send logging data to your S3 buckets with AWS Cloudtrail, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now automatically detects duplicate customer profiles in your Amazon Connect Customer Profiles domain and allows you to review the results by using Identity Resolution APIs (preview). Identity Resolution uses machine learning to detect duplicate profiles based on similar name, email address, and phone number. For example, two or more profiles—with spelling mistakes such as “John Doe” and “Jhn Doe,” or different casing email addresses such as “JOHN_DOE@ANYCOMPANY.COM” and “johndoe@anycompany.com,” or different phone number formats such as “555-010-0000” and “+1-555-010-0000”, can be detected as belonging to the same customer “John Doe” and merged into ... Read More