Security News > 2023 > August > Adapting authentication to a cloud-centric landscape

In this Help Net Security interview, Florian Forster, CEO at Zitadel, discusses the challenges CISOs face in managing authentication across increasingly distributed and remote workforces, the negative consequences of ineffective authorization, and how the shift toward cloud transformation affects authentication strategies.

Authentication devicesWhen companies want to start using secure authentication concepts like passwordless or even Smartcards it becomes an additional burden to deliver the authentication devices to their employees.

However in some cases they might conflict with the goal of the authentication process to reliably link the authentication method to a subject.

How has the shift toward cloud transformation affected authentication strategies for businesses?

Organizations are navigating the tension between supporting legacy protocols and adopting new authentication technologies by phasing out legacy protocols over time, using both legacy protocols and new authentication technologies simultaneously, or by using a single authentication system to support all users and applications.

Use secure authentication: Secure authentication can help to protect machine credentials to prevent unauthorized access to the secret storage or the identity system.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/08/28/florian-forster-zitadel-ineffective-authorization/