January 18, 2024 | Posted in News
The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy identity management and information security news for the week of December 15. This curated list features identity management and information security vendors such as Quorum Cyber, QuSecure, IDIQ, and more.
Keeping tabs on all the most relevant identity management and information security news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last month, in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy identity management and information security news items.
Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of December 15
Quorum Cyber Celebrates Monumental Year in 2023
This week, Quorum Cyber, a cybersecurity solutions provider, announced significant growth and market momentum in 2023. For the past year, the company opened new offices in London and North America, achieved several notable industry accolades, expanded its headcount to over 225 employees, launched new cybersecurity services, and signed over 20 new managed services customers across the automotive, financial services, information technology, local government, housing, not-for-profit, and retail sectors. “The new year is almost upon us, and we’re ready to achieve even more. While 2023 was undoubtedly a very successful year for Quorum Cyber, we’re only just starting,” Federico Charosky, CEO of Quorum Cyber, commented.
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QuSecure Launches QuProtect PQC Software in AWS Marketplace
QuSecure, Inc., a leader in post-quantum cryptography (PQC), this week announced the availability of its cybersecurity software QuProtect in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that makes it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This strategic move marks a significant milestone not only for QuSecure but also for the PQC market in general. The immediate availability of QuProtect on the trusted AWS Marketplace extends the reach of QuSecure’s enterprise security software solution to organizations of all sizes seeking protection against emerging cyber threats.
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IDIQ’s Michael Scheumack Joins Alliance for Identity Resilience Advisory Board
IDIQ, a leader in financial and identity protection, announced today that Michael Scheumack, IDIQ chief marketing and innovation officer, will be joining the Identity Theft Resource Center’s (ITRC) newly formed Alliance for Identity Resilience (AIR) Advisory Board and will play a crucial role in advising the ITRC on matters related to identity theft crime. Scheumack is a cybersecurity expert with more than 20 years of experience in the financial, credit, and identity theft protection industries.
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Generative AI: Safety, Security, and Exploitations
Philipp Pointner of Jumio explores the ins and outs of Generative AI- from safety to enterprise security to exploitation. The use of generative AI has propelled technological advancements, revolutionizing tasks like research, report writing, and image creation with accelerated speed and efficiency. While these AI-driven automation tools offer substantial benefits for businesses, they simultaneously open the door to a new wave of fraudulent activities and disinformation. As users are urged to enhance their online skepticism and education of human-centric attack methods, relying on all users to become savvy enough to stop fraud and disinformation isn’t enough. It’s up to businesses to take the lead in this evolving cybersecurity battle to bolster the safety and security of themselves and their customers. In the face of increasingly complex and AI-driven identity fraud tactics, businesses must prioritize vigilance and implement comprehensive strategies to protect their operations and their customers’ identities. Let’s explore the common AI-powered attack methods, and the modern strategies, such as robust identity verification, liveness detection, and biometric authentication, that are ensuring the safety and security of businesses and their users.
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Safeguarding Your Likeness from the Rise of Deepfakes
David Divitt of Veriff goes deep into safeguarding your likeness from deepfakes, as the technology becomes more easily accessible. Identity theft is a staple of fraud actors’ tactics, including the use of fake IDs and impersonating people online after phishing for their identifying information. However the fraudster intends to use the newly assumed identity, the outcome for victims of the scams is usually the same: a complete upending of their personal life, reputational harm, or even financial ruin. Today’s average internet user is likely familiar with the traps many scammers use to gain access to personal information. But what if all they needed was an image of your face, or a sound bite of your voice? When it comes to identity fraud, there’s little as powerful as a deepfake. Deepfakes have been around for several years (the term was coined in 2017), but with such significant progress being made in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions every day, this form of fraud has increased in sophistication. Today, deepfake fraud rates continue to rise rapidly, and with the emergence of deepfakes-as-a-service, they’ll also become more scalable. Let’s explore the current state of deepfake fraud, and what businesses — and the average person — can do to protect their identities from malicious uses of AI.