Authorisation stories

Westcon-Comstor has been named the first authorised distributor for Amazon Web Services in Vietnam, expanding its cloud services reach across Asia-Pacific.

Kaspersky has enhanced its Partner Locator by adding Authorized Training Centers, boosting access for cybersecurity professionals to vital training worldwide.

Currenxie has secured an Electronic Money Institution licence from the Central Bank of Ireland, allowing its operations across the European Economic Area.

British neo-bank ANNA has launched biometric re-authentication to enhance security, requiring selfies to prevent unauthorised access to business accounts.

Adyen enters the Indian market with RBI authorisation, launching local payment processing and a Bengaluru tech hub to support digital payment growth.

Cloud SaaS applications face increasing cyber-attacks, with breaches quadrupling in a year due to identity factors, highlighting urgent security needs.

Tenable has exposed a high-risk vulnerability in Microsoft's Azure, impacting over ten key services. Microsoft declines to issue a patch, urging users to follow new documentation.

Wavelink has earned Fortinet’s Authorised Training Centre certification, allowing it to deliver Fortinet-certified cybersecurity training across Australia.

When users encounter allowlisting restrictions, it matters how these are handled—in the backend for maintaining security posture and in the front end for user experience.

Australian businesses tighten cyber defences amid a 354% surge in account takeover fraud, resulting in a record $3.1B loss, calling for strategies that balance fraud prevention with user experience.

Zadara, an international cloud service provider, completes Australia's Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP), enhancing its expansion into the country.

Leostream Corporation enhances hybrid cloud security for vSphere with a suite of new features, promising better data control, multivendor support, robust connectivity, and reduced cloud costs.

Cloudflare's reports highlight the spike in DDoS attacks amid conflict in Palestine and Israel, and the growing security threats posed by 'shadow APIs'.

Google Cloud launches a secret discovery tool aimed at boosting organisation's security by detecting and monitoring plaintext credentials, part of its no-cost Sensitive Data Protection offering.

The future of generative AI in the legal sector depends on the creation of reliable knowledge repositories, says Lexsoft Systems CEO.

Ping Identity's PingOne Cloud Platform and ForgeRock Identity Cloud named Leaders in Gartner's 2023 Access Management Quadrant.

Datasec Solutions and HP have partnered to improve edge security, planning to deliver advanced, anti-phishing authentication solutions.

OVHcloud, a leading cloud provider, enhances security with new advanced Identity and Access Management feature.

The second edition of the eBook is updated and expanded and includes privileged access management requirements for cyber insurance in 2023.

Adyen launches RevenueAccelerate, an automated tool to increase credit card approval rates, aiming to turn failed transactions into revenue.