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BioConnect collaborates with HID Global to bring authentication to its HID Mobile Access solution

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BioConnect announced a collaboration with HID Global to bring authentication to its HID Mobile Access solution alongside a mobile survey option for wellness declaration for employee health status and activity logging.

BioConnect expands the options for HID Mobile Access users with enterprise issued biometrics or multi-factor authentication right from their mobile device with the BioConnect Mobile Authenticator to meet new and more stringent compliance requirements. With BioConnect, HID Mobile Access users can access high-risk spaces, such as data centers, data cages and nuclear facilities.

The BioConnect Mobile App with the HID Mobile Access delivers exact identity assurance with an indisputable and easily available audit trail. System administrators choose how they would like their users to authenticate at each entry point; including two factor authentication with IT trusted authenticators or, for more complex security requirements, with biometrics.

BioConnect gives HID Mobile Access users the power to choose their biometrics – or, for high-security transactions, the enterprise can make the decision with selective modality authentication.

Not only will HID Mobile Access users have additional capabilities to access secure spaces, but they will also be armed with a Health and Wellness Declaration to affirm employee health before entering buildings. This step-up will require users to confirm their current health, allowing access to healthy users and keeping out the risk of users who may have come into contact with the COVID-19 virus.

“Bringing together HID’s world renowned mobile access solution and BioConnect’s enterprise grade biometric authentication platform, customers can be assured that they will be able to support a variety of authentication levels regardless of location, whether that be the front lobby for high-throughput, or the organizations critical data infrastructure, where risk-mitigation and compliance is paramount,” says Pritesh Patel, Director, Trust AI at BioConnect.

“The collaboration with BioConnect underscores our commitment to offering customers a broad range of options for convenient and secure access control. HID Mobile Access continues…

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National Guard is preparing for a major cyber attack that would bring down utilities across the US

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The National Guard has been preparing for a major cyber attack that would bring down utilities across the US, after the hack of the Colonial Pipeline brought the nation’s fuel supply to its knees.

Troops from across the New England region practiced tackling a massive simulated breach across critical infrastructure sectors including power, water and gas during a two-week training exercise this month.

The exercise involved a situation where a huge cyber attack targeted utilities on the West Coast before moving east across the country. 

Much like in a real-life scenario, National Guardsmen worked alongside government agencies – including the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and US Cyber Command – as well as private sector utility partners to respond to the crisis.

While the crisis was a simulation this time round, such an attack is looking increasingly possible.  

A series of recent, devastating attacks have sent warning signs about the risk cybersecurity breaches can bring to national infrastructure. 

When the Colonial Pipeline was targeted by hackers in May, it was forced to shut its entire network carrying 45 percent of all fuel to the East Coast, sparking a national fuel crisis that sent gas prices soaring.

Weeks later, the food supply chain was dealt a blow when hackers led to the four-day closures of plants belonging to America’s largest beef supplier JBS. 

The National Guard has been preparing for a major cyber attack that would bring down utilities across the US, after the hack of the Colonial Pipeline brought the nation's fuel supply to its knees. Pictured the two-week training exercise

The National Guard has been preparing for a major cyber attack that would bring down utilities across the US, after the hack of the Colonial Pipeline brought the nation’s fuel supply to its knees. Pictured the two-week training exercise

Troops from across the New England region practiced tackling a massive simulated breach across critical infrastructure sectors including power, water and gas during the Cyber Yankee Event (above)

Troops from across the New England region practiced tackling a massive simulated breach across critical infrastructure sectors including power, water and gas during the Cyber Yankee Event (above)

The Cyber Yankee event, which has been held for the last seven years and was carried out in Camp Edwards, Cape Cod, tested the ability of the National Guard cyber units to respond to a real-life cyberattack and trained them to collaborate with government and industry partners.  

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SecurityScorecard taps HackerOne to bring bug bounty data to security ratings

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HackerOne and SecurityScorecard have announced a platform integration that will showcase data from the ethical hacking community on a company’s digital scorecard.

SecurityScorecard, for the uninitiated, is a cybersecurity rating and risk-monitoring platform major companies such as Nokia, AXA, and Liberty Mutual use to monitor and assess security throughout their supply chain, including weaknesses in third-party vendors. It’s kind of like a credit score rating for security.

HackerOne, meanwhile, connects businesses with security researchers, or “white hat hackers,” who are financially incentivized to find software vulnerabilities before bad actors do. The HackerOne platform has powered bug bounty programs for major businesses, including Microsoft, Google, Intel, the U.S. Department of Defense, and Goldman Sachs. The San Francisco-based company recently touted major enterprise growth, with nearly half of its new sales stemming from businesses with over $1 billion in revenue.

Risk categories

SecurityScorecard uses 10 broad risk categories as part of its rating system, including endpoint security, network security, DNS health, and patching cadence. It also uses a risk category it calls “hacker chatter,” which automatically collects and analyzes conversations from popular public hacker community channels, such as private forums, social networks, and internet relay chat (IRC). It’s all about finding mentions of a business and its associated digital properties to assess whether any potential undisclosed exploits are being discussed.

This latest partnership with HackerOne builds on that basic concept, though it instead surfaces official bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure data gleaned from HackerOne’s API.

Above: HackerOne score in SecurityScorecard

For SecurityScorecard customers, a “hacker report” signal will appear on scorecards for companies that use HackerOne, though this is on an entirely opt-in basis.

Enterprises will be able to see recent security issues involving companies in their supply chain and take appropriate action — with the ability to download a CSV file…

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Realme XT, Realme X2, Realme X Updates Bring September Android Patch, More in India – Gadgets 360

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Realme XT, Realme X2, Realme X Updates Bring September Android Patch, More in India  Gadgets 360
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