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COMPANY NEWS: Australian Payments Plus (AP+) today announced its digital identity solution, ConnectID, is now available to ANZ Plus customers.

When he started at Privy, Rob Hotchin received a high volume of messages from his friends, family and colleagues asking him “What the f%$k is digital identity and what does it do?!”.  iTWire spoke to him to find out a bit more about Digital ID, why it’s just been appointed $288.1m in the recent Federal Budget, and why it’s becoming the buzzword for 2024. 

GUEST OPINION:   Organisations should adopt passwordless authentication to withstand the ever-looming threats of cyber attacks, including phishing, keylogging, and man-in-the-middle attacks.

COMPANY NEWS:  New data shows people are concerned about personal data theft when they engage with financial services providers online

GUEST OPINION by Prakash Sinha, Radware: ‘Identity as a perimeter’ is a concept in cybersecurity that represents a shift in the traditional approach to network and application security.

COMPANY NEWS:  Key Takeaways

• More than 4 in 10 companies are still in the early stages of their identity-security journey.
• Security professionals are struggling to communicate the business value of identity.
• Even mature companies cover less than 70% of the identities in their organisation.
• Companies leveraging SaaS, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and automation scale 10-30% faster.

Authentication and access management specialist SecureAuth has been granted three US patents for identity verification using Bluetooth, personal attributes, and environmental information.

COMPANY NEWS: BeyondTrust, the worldwide leader in intelligent identity and access security, today announced their recognition by Gartner Peer Insights as a Customers' Choice for remote desktop software. BeyondTrust earned an overall rating of 4.6 out of 5, with 91% of reviewers noting they "would recommend" the solution. Vendors placed in the upper-right quadrant of the Voice of the Customer report meet or exceed the market average Overall Rating and the market average User Interest and Adoption.

COMPANY NEWS: RSA, the security-first identity leader, released its inaugural ID IQ Report today. Using results from the RSA ID IQ Quiz, the report assesses and baselines users' identity security knowledge, capabilities, and perceptions regarding the role of AI in cybersecurity. Results from the 2023 RSA ID IQ Report reveal that:

Identity and access security specialist BeyondTrust's Identity Issues Impact Zero Trust Effectiveness survey found identity-related incidents are commonplace.

COMPANY NEWS: Entrust, a global leader in identity and data security, is supporting organisations’ Zero Trust journey with new foundational identity, encryption, and key management solutions.

Forensic research and global developer of identity verification solutions company Regula has updated its Face SDK solution used in the face recognition process, incuding the addition of a new feature called Face Image Quality Assessment.

Identity provider Okta has released a new identity verification feature within Zoom that leverages Okta to authenticate a meeting attendee's identity by email in Zoom meetings using end-to-end encryption (E2EE).

Most organisations now have the basic identity and access management technology yet continue to struggle with identity management, which could be due to the complexity in orchestrating dynamic workplaces, hybrid and remote workforces, and the rise of non-human identities, according to a new research report analysing the State of Identity in Australia and New Zealand.

Optus and Mastercard have extended their strategic partnership to provide Optus customers with a “simple, secure way” to prove their identity. 

COMPANY NEWS: Strata Identity, the distributed multi-cloud identity orchestration company, today announced it has closed a US$26 million Series B round of financing led by Telstra Ventures with participation from existing investors Menlo Ventures, Forgepoint Capital and Innovating Capital.

Identity technology company, IDEMIA, has developed an end-to-end border control solution comprising kiosks and eGates, which is being installed by the Australian Department of Home Affairs into eight international airports.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Cybersecurity is ever-changing, with cyber criminals continually thinking up new ways to steal passwords and evade defences, so how has biometrics evolved to create safer and more secure environments? Blair Crawford joins iTWireTV to explain the Daltrey difference.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Cybersecurity is ever-changing, with cyber criminals continually thinking up new ways to steal passwords and evade defences, so how has biometrics evolved to create safer and more secure environments? Blair Crawford joins iTWireTV to explain the Daltrey difference.

GUEST OPINION: BeyondTrust, the leader in intelligent identity and access security today released its annual forecast of cybersecurity trends emerging for the New Year and beyond. These projections, authored by BeyondTrust experts Morey J. Haber, chief security officer and Brian Chappell, chief security strategist, EMEA/APAC, are based on shifts in technology, threat actor habits, culture, and decades of combined experience.