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Simeio Appoints Dan Smith as Chief Financial Officer
Smith to oversee financial strategies for Simeio’s cybersecurity leadership. Alpharetta, GA – February 28, 2024 – Simeio, the leading provider of specialized identity andaccess...
Simeio Appoints Nick Rowe as Chief Operating Officer
Rowe to oversee global delivery operations and industry-leading product offerings Alpharetta, GA Simeio, the leading provider of specialized identity and access management...
MGM and Caesars Breaches: The Imperative of Managed Identity Security Services
In a seismic wake-up call to the cybersecurity landscape, MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment recently grappled with a massive security breach resulting in...
IAM Implementation Strategy for Retail: Remembering the 2013 Target Hack
Remember that time Target was hacked through an air conditioner? Not “a Target storefront,” but the entire corporation and its customers’ information. The 2013 incident...
CIAM Solutions Drive Customer Conversions
The pandemic nearly killed brick and mortar storefronts. Though they have not perished completely, the shift towards digital customer experience has reached a fever pitch. As...
How Managed Identity Governance Enriches Your Financial Services
If you’re in the financial services sector then obviously you’re reasonably good at measuring your ROI, risks, and making sure your customers can count on you when it comes to...
IAM Solutions for Security Issues: Learning from the MOVEit Data Breaches
The past few months have been embarrassing for financial cybersecurity. A zero-day vulnerability in the widely used MOVEit data migration software allowed the ransomware group...
Rediscovering the Role of CIAM Services in Finance
Miss Mary Malkovich is having a bad day. Her dog, Blevins, has chewed up her checkbook and she needs a replacement. She tries to access her bank account online, but a forgotten...
IGA in the Energy Industry Builds Security, Efficiency, and Safety
Though it serves as a crucial IAM domain in all sectors, identity governance and administration (IGA) for energy is of particular importance. From the light switch in...
IAM Professional Services – The What and Why
Every business in the modern marketplace should be using IAM professional services. It’s such a transformative service that literally every sector can (and does) take advantage...
When to Get a Managed CIEM Service…and Get it Right
Cloud technology is exciting as well as challenging with constant emergence of inconvenient and unfamiliar problems. Only slightly less annoying is the emergence of solutions to...
The Importance of IAM Management
The Importance of IAM Management In today’s digital landscape, Identity and Access Management (IAM) ensures security, efficiency, and compliance within organizations. Effective...
Combatting Enterprise Identity Sprawl in 2023
Even the best security solutions (monitoring through the most advanced technology available) are hard-pressed to cover an attack surface afflicted by identity sprawl. Identity...
The Recent Telecom Breaches Expose the Vulnerability of Siloed Security
The AT&T data breach of March 2023 should serve as a lesson in the dangers of relying upon siloed security solutions. As easy and popular as it is to point and laugh at...
Guide to a Successful IAM Assessment
An IAM (Identity and Access Management) assessment is a comprehensive evaluation of a company’s current IAM processes, systems, and technologies. The goal of which is identifying...
Vendor Vulnerability: Your Weakest Cybersecurity Link
In thinking about the recent vendor vulnerability demonstrated by the recent AT&T data breach, announced on March 7, 2023, I’m reminded of the old saying, “A chain is...
A Guide to Effective PAM Implementation
Privileged Access Management (PAM) serves your identity fabric as a means of control and security, but do you know what effective PAM Implementation looks like? PAM secures your...
A Managed IAM Provider: When and Why to Get Yours
Statistically, you’ve not yet implemented a managed IAM provider in your organization. Maybe you’re in the process of choosing your IAM service provider, a crucial step in...
Managed IAM for Business: Enabling Enterprises Through Identity
Managed IAM has emerged as the spearhead of effective data systems, proving itself as the convergence of cybersecurity and digital information use. The magnificent strides taken...
Secure Seamless IAM Makes Friction a Fiction
Secure Seamless IAM is the end goal of all Identity Management rollouts. Yet to the outside observer getting a system that is both secure and easy to use sounds like a pipe...
Ideal IAM Programs Follow these 5 Key Points
Creating your Ideal IAM program is never simple, but it can be simplified. With decades of collective insights from some of the best performing experts in the field, CEs should...
Identity Security Service Halts Hackers
When measured against the performance of traditional offerings, the benefits of modern identity security services are unparalleled. Manual-only controls, lack of analytics, and...
Identity and Access Management is Crucial in a Digital World. But it’s Complicated. Let’s Break it Down.
No one ever looks forward to a security breach, especially when it comes to data – but it’s important to be prepared for one. And with 95 percent of security breaches connecting...
The 6 Identity and Access Security Questions You Need to Answer
Assessing the security of your Identity and Access Service can be a daunting, complicated, and humbling task. However, you can boil down the state of your Identity and Access...
2023 Goals for CIAM Leaders – Enable Business with Security, Not Cause Friction
How customers interact with your business is critical—it can spur customer engagement or lead to customer churn. In the physical world, those interactions may happen at a counter...
How to Start and Lead Your Identity Journey
Identity and Access Management (IAM) has touched everything for years. It establishes you at the enterprise level at your new employer (and it goes on living for you at...
2023 IAM Trends & Identity System Security Lessons from 2022
Before we go into the top 2023 IAM trends, let’s summarize what enterprises experienced in 2022. Upheaval has characterized the majority of 2022, permeating across virtually...
The 4 Key Lessons to Learn from the Recent Cybersecurity Breaches
Yes, Identity Security is the Foundation! The slightest mistake can offer cybercriminals a pathway inside, even when the doors to your data seem well guarded. The focus is not...
Avoiding the Top 10 Common IAM Mistakes
IAM – identity and access management- is the information technology security framework of policies and technologies that ensures the right users (whether employees, customers,...
Is Your IAM Glass Half Empty? Here’s How to get the Best out of your IAM Investment
The proverbial question, “is the glass half empty or half full?” is typically used rhetorically to determine whether someone perceives a situation as a cause for pessimism (half...
5 Ways IAM Programs Can Support a Robust Business Process
IAM has already established its role among security and risk professionals in most security programs. Interestingly, IAM also plays a significant role in the overall business...
7 Steps Toward Your Successful IAM Journey
We know that Identity and Access Management implementations are not simple. It is a mammoth task to take all the data, human and non-human identities, infrastructure, platforms,...
Why Proactive Cybersecurity Strategies Should be in the Top 3 Priorities for Organizations
In less than a month, two cyberattacks shook the United States and other nations, impacting people’s daily lives. It’s ironic that the countries where these attacks happened are...
3 Ways Managed PAM Maximizes the Business Value of Digital Infrastructure
Enterprise digital infrastructure has become more complex and costly to secure, manage and support. Contributing factors include multiple clouds, expanding enterprise perimeters...
Your Cloud Strategy Is In Great Shape – Can You Say The Same About IAM?
Whether it is a FOMO or truly a need for organizational transformation – cloud strategies have become a top priority across boardrooms, and tech leadership teams are scouting...
Modernized Application Onboarding Service Maximizes Digital Transformation Investments
An application onboarding service is the cumulative result of people, processes, and technologies working together. The acceleration of digital transformation, brought on by the...
KuppingerCole Leadership Compass 2021 – Access Management
The Leadership Compass 2021, released by KuppingerCole, provides an insight to that year's IAM leaders in innovation, product features, and market reach for Access Management:...
Simeio Names Chris Schueler as Chief Executive Officer
Chris Schueler Brings Proven Leadership To the Role of Chief Executive Officer ATLANTA–August 12, 2020 – Simeio, a global leader in Identity and Access Management (“IAM”),...