identity guard

The world set a new record for data breaches in 2016, with more than 4.2 billion exposed records, shattering the former record of 1.1 billion in 2013. But if 2016 was bad, 2017 is shaping up to be even worse. In the first six months of 2017, there were 2,227 breaches reported, exposing over 6 billion records and putting untold numbers of accounts at risk. Out of all these stolen records, a large majority include usernames and passwords, which are leveraged in 81 percent of hacking-related breaches according to the 2017 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Faced with ever-growing concerns over application and data integrity, organizations must prioritize identity protection in their security strategies. In fact, safeguarding the identity of users and managing the level of access they have to critical business applications could be the biggest security challenge organizations face in 2017.

In an always-on, ever connected world, the risk of identity theft is real. There is a new identity fraud victim every two seconds. LifeLock identity theft protection helps safeguard against identity fraud by monitoring millions of transactions per second provide services that remediation-only or credit monitoring-only services don’t offer – with no benefit deductible or service co-pay.

Offering employees proactive identity theft protection from LifeLock is an affordable way to satisfy top talent. This guide will help you understand the realities of identity theft today, its impact on your workplace and how giving employees a benefit they value can help safeguard retention, productivity and peace of mind.

Offering employees proactive identity theft protection from LifeLock is an affordable way to satisfy top talent. Call me to learn about the realities of identity theft today, its impact on your workplace and how giving employees a benefit they value can help safeguard retention, productivity and peace of mind.

Experts agree that username/password authentication does not provide enough protection against unauthorized access. CIOs are challenged to increase authentication security while preserving operational and budget efficiency.

Digital certificates have emerged to serve as the trust foundation for identities, communication, transactions and information security due to their flexibility in terms of deployment and their high level of inherent security. Entrust IdentityGuard Cloud Services provide digital certificate and identity management solutions that bring together all certificate services, tools and security under a single cloud-based service. It’s a simple, strong and easy solution to issue and manage identities through their lifecycle via the cloud.

Multipurpose Smartcards, USB Tokens & Mobile Smart Credentials

Certificate Discovery & Management Solution

Securing Mobile Identities & Devices

Entrust IdentityGuard Cloud Services PKI establishes and manages certificate-based security across an organization through a reliable, customizable and flexible hosted public key infrastructure (PKI). Entrust’s cloud-based PKI service eliminates up-front capital investment and significantly reduces on-going operation cost associated with in-house PKI software, provides built-in maintenance capabilities and speeds deployment time.

The use of non-fully qualified domain name (FQDN) certificates is being deprecated by November 1, 2015. Existing certificates containing non-FQDN names will be revoked by all public CAs by October 1, 2016. Entrust provides a straightforward option that allows the continued use of non-registered names by deploying cost-effective Entrust Private SSL Certificates.

Managing the purchase, deployment, renewal and expiry of digital certificates for multiple Web servers, purposes and users — sometimes in many different locations — can be time-consuming and costly. Entrust IdentityGuard Cloud Services SSL is a self-service application designed to streamline certificate management while providing secure certificates from a trusted brand in online security.

Digital certificates have emerged to serve as the trust foundation for identities, communication, transactions and information security due to their flexibility in terms of deployment and their high level of inherent security.

The boundaries of the corporate network are being challenged. Today’s enterprise is falling victim to unrelenting attacks that target physical and logical infrastructures, mobile platforms, user identities, network devices and more.

One of the most secure and simple-to-use methods for strong authentication is achieved via multipurpose smartcards. Unfortunately, many smartcard solutions require too many point products, are complex and place a heavy burden on IT.

As various types of digital certificates are introduced to an organization, they become more difficult to track and manage — particularly if they’re issued from different certification authorities.

The proliferation of mobile devices presents tremendous opportunities for organizations to empower employees and increase business efficiency.

Entrust IdentityGuard Cloud Services PKI establishes and manages certificate-based security across an organization through a reliable, customizable and flexible hosted public key infrastructure (PKI).

Managing the purchase, deployment, renewal and expiry of digital certificates for multiple Web servers, purposes and users — sometimes in many different locations — can be time-consuming and costly.

With every new data breach revealed or costly identity-theft case reported, confidence in data security and the protection of private identity information transactions — and overall trust — erodes. This loss of confidence in online services and reputation can have a direct impact on trust from end-users, customers, employees, partners, vendors and more. With significant advances in criminal threats — both in sophistication and sheer frequency — all enterprises are urged to bolster defenses, authenticate digital identities and safeguard sensitive information. Entrust offers five specific best practices — with emphasis on strong authentication, identity assurance, mobile enablement and general layered security — that can help protect against targeted attacks now and over the long term.

As incidents of identity theft and fraud skyrocket, companies are scrambling to keep up with complex attacks and effectively safeguard consumer information. If you store, process, or transmit cardholder data, comprehensive visibility, actionable intelligence and the ability to respond rapidly to threats has become paramount.

Identity theft (IDT) is a critical concern for people around the world. Providing identity theft protection as an employee benefit helps safeguard employees from fraud, scams and threats to their personal credit ratings. And, this low-cost benefit can make your employment benefits package more attractive. In this program, Todd Davis, founder of LifeLock, discusses the options for identity theft coverage, how to drive participation in such coverage and how to use your IDT benefit to improve employee retention and engagement.

This white paper outlines issues with managing online identities across a diverse customer base when faced with increasing threats. It proposes a common sense approach that matches security to the assessed risk for users, actions and applications.

Whether and organization or an individual, identity theft spells a long, expensive, and complex recovery process. However, online identity theft can be prevented with encryption software and advanced password protection.

The data security challenges for financial services providers—from the solo accounting professional to the midsize accounting firm to world’s largest corporation, from CPAs to CFPs to credit counselors—have never been as challenging as they are in today’s turbulent times. And although the large data breaches at the most recognizable companies receive the most publicity, small companies and solo offices can also be victims, according to the Better Business Bureau.