Mastering Advanced App-Onboarding with Entra

One of the services we offer at Assertiv is application onboarding. This is a unique area of specialisation, as complexity can wildly differ from application to application. We’ve seen customers get burned when they assume their use-case is straight forward. In this blog, I want to show you a unique use case on the moreContinue reading “Mastering Advanced App-Onboarding with Entra”

Securing Guest Trust: Identity Security as a Hospitality Business Imperative

The hospitality industry encompasses a vast ecosystem of businesses dedicated to customer satisfaction and memorable experiences, which includes restaurants, cruise lines, theme parks, casinos, travel agencies, event venues, and hotels. Over the past decade, these sectors have undergone radical digital transformation to meet evolving customer expectations, optimise operations, and maintain competitive advantage. From contactless paymentsContinue reading “Securing Guest Trust: Identity Security as a Hospitality Business Imperative”

Checking In Securely: How IAM Keeps Hackers Out of Your Hotel

The Cybersecurity Landscape in Hospitality   The hospitality industry has rapidly embraced digital transformation to enhance guest experiences, streamline operations, and remain competitive in a global marketplace. From digital key cards and automated check-ins to interconnected IoT devices and sophisticated reservation systems, hotels are increasingly becoming technology-driven enterprises. While this digital evolution has brought unprecedentedContinue reading “Checking In Securely: How IAM Keeps Hackers Out of Your Hotel”

Permission Creep – The Hidden Threat in Your Organisation

Permission Creep (also known as Privilege Creep) ranks highly as a cyber threat for any organisation. It typically occurs when staff change roles and nobody bothers to remove their existing access (but read on, as it can materialise in lesser known ways too). It’s also avoidable in almost all cases. The risk of permission creepContinue reading “Permission Creep – The Hidden Threat in Your Organisation”

Avoiding Cost Blowouts and Enhancing Agility: The Key to Successful App Onboarding

There is one big mistake many organisations make in their approach to application onboarding. This mistake leads to cost blowouts, poor technical governance, slow onboarding agility, and at worst (and we’ve seen it before) the total abandonment of an identity platform transformation. Before we expose this mistake we need to look at what an appContinue reading “Avoiding Cost Blowouts and Enhancing Agility: The Key to Successful App Onboarding”

Maximising Business Efficiency with Effective IAM Strategies: Stay Ahead of the Game

As a CISO, ensuring the security of your organisation’s data is a top priority. However, managing access to critical systems and data can be difficult without a clear understanding of your IAM landscape. It’s a headache-inducing challenge that can leave you feeling frustrated and overwhelmed. Starting from scratch with IAM? Ain’t nobody got time forContinue reading “Maximising Business Efficiency with Effective IAM Strategies: Stay Ahead of the Game”

8 Emerging Identity Governance Trends in 2022

The definition of Identity Governance constantly evolves as new risks emerge and software vendors improve the capabilities of their products. Meeting the functional needs of your business as well as protecting your internal and customer’s data is a core competency of an identity security system. How a business goes about meeting these needs can changeContinue reading “8 Emerging Identity Governance Trends in 2022”

Why Identity Modernisation Cannot Be Ignored

In our modern technology landscape, identity is core to almost every transaction we make. Businesses need to accurately identify, authenticate and authorize both employees and customers to ensure data and processes are not compromised. When analysis is performed on security breaches, it’s highlighted that far more could have been done to prevent the exposure. InContinue reading “Why Identity Modernisation Cannot Be Ignored”