Security News > 2021 > October

Axiomatics has identified four limitations to an RBAC-centric security approach and suggests enterprises evolve their RBAC model to an attribute-based access control model. Four RBAC limitations Role explosion: RBAC is limited to defining access permissions by role as each user often requires entirely unique access rights, one user may be assigned several roles, creating a 'one size fits all' solution that can result in too much access.

As legal and compliance teams have faced acute pressures since the global pandemic and are struggling to manage their workload, legal leaders should focus their technology efforts in three areas to derive the maximum benefit, according to Gartner. "Technology adoption for the average legal and compliance team lags many other corporate functions, therefore legal must not try to run before it can walk," said Zack Hutto, director, advisory in the Gartner Legal & Compliance practice.

Subscriber adoption of the fifth generation of wireless has increased significantly, as global wireless 5G connections for the second quarter of 2021 reached 429 million, according to data from Omdia, said 5G Americas. The world added 124M 5G connections between Q1 and Q2 of 2021.

The IDC cloud security survey 2021 states that as many as 98% of companies were victims of a cloud data breach within the past 18 months. ImmuniWeb, a rapidly growing application security vendor that offers a variety of AI-driven products, has announced this week that its free Community Edition, running over 150,000 daily security tests, now has one more online tool - cloud security test.