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Enterprise application environments consist of geographically distributed and loosely coupled microservices that span multiple cloud and on-premises environments. Users from different locations access them through different devices.
In this Help Net Security video interview, Or Weis, Co-Founder and CEO of Permit.io, discusses an innovative approach to managing permissions and access control within applications. We will explore policy as code and how it addresses organizations' challenges in managing access control effectively.
Access control has become a main concern when it comes to developing secure web applications, and the NSA has a lot to say about it. In this article, we will focus and elaborate on the best practices offered by the NSA for building secure access management, and how they can be implemented at the application level.
Role-based access control is a simple, understandable approach to making data access permit/deny decisions. Their contract negotiation teams often needed access to prepare quotes for new business, and accounts receivable needed access for accurate billing based on performance-related contract terms.
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As many as eight zero-day vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Carrier's LenelS2 HID Mercury access control system that's used widely in healthcare, education, transportation, and government facilities. "The vulnerabilities uncovered allowed us to demonstrate the ability to remotely unlock and lock doors, subvert alarms and undermine logging and notification systems," Trellix security researchers Steve Povolny and Sam Quinn said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
The Open Web App Security Project has released its Top Ten list of vulnerabilities in web software, as part of the general movement to make software less painfully insecure at the design stage. This year's current number one web app security flaw is Broken Access Control, with OWASP glumly noting: "The 34 CWEs* mapped to Broken Access Control had more occurrences in applications than any other category."
Immuta announced it is now available to provide automated data access control in Snowflake's Partner Connect portal. While Snowflake Partner Connect originally focused primarily on ETL tools, the partner portal is now expanding to include tools in the data governance and access control ecosystem.
Immuta launched new SaaS deployment option, enabling data teams to implement data access control across their entire cloud data environment in minutes. Modern data teams are moving to pure SaaS deployments for all of their analytics and data science, and they want access control delivered in the same way.
Continuing its commitment to providing these options, HID Global announced the implementation of the latest MIFARE DESFire EV3 credential. "Our credential based on NXP MIFARE DESFire EV3 delivers this technology's full range of advanced security and privacy capabilities and reinforces them with HID's powerful model for identity data protection," said Harm Radstaak, Senior Vice President and Head of Physical Access Control Solutions with HID Global.