Following on from the previous article we posted regarding cyber security trends, we thought we’d revisit the topic and continue with another set to keep an eye on. The world of cyber security is always evolving and there’s always too much for just one article on the subject.

Teleport 10.2 was released on September 6th along with a lot of new features, bug fixes and improvements. This blog post will focus on two new features that deserve a deeper dive.

Whether it's password or passwordless authentication, multi-factor authentication, or any of the other identity verification shenanigans, in the end, our identity is deduced to a single session cookie! We can't deny the security importance of session cookies in web application access control.

At Netskope, our primary focus in the marketplace is to help customers protect their data. More and more data exists outside the traditional enterprise perimeter and is growing at an ever-rapid pace. More than 80% of users are using personal apps and instances from managed devices, and of those applications being accessed, roughly half would be given a “Poor” risk rating by the Netskope Cloud Confidence Index.

The HECVAT (Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit) is a security assessment framework in the form of a questionnaire that’s specifically designed for higher education institutions to measure vendor risk. HECVAT attempts to standardize higher education information security and data protection requirements for cloud service providers and third-party solutions, specifically for their consistency, compatibility, and ease of use.