Tag Archive for Authentication

Dell kicks off CES releases with reconceptualized 2-in-1 Latitude with 24 hours of battery life

Dell has multiple announcements coming at next week’s CES show, but they decided to drop this one early. The new Latitude 7400 2-in-1 is not as sexy as some of the announcements coming next week, but for Dell’s commercial market partners and customers, it will be the most important.

Blockchain, Flow enhancements and security highlight new Dell Boomi platform release

Other features that expand the release theme of enhancing the platform’s usability for developers include the addition of additional open capabilities, and newly announced free certifications.

ConnectWise lays out key business issues for MSPs, with roadmap of portal and platform changes to address them

At IT Nation Connect, ConnectWise Chief Product Officer Craig Fulton discussed metrics MSPs need to better understand and use, as well as changes that ConnectWise will be making in its platform to help them do that.

Duo Security and Exabeam partnership brings zero trust authentication to the entire user session

The partnership between Duo and Exabeam allows Duo’s zero-trust authentication technology to be used as a trigger by the Exabeam SIEM throughout the user session, and not just when the user logs in.

Okta touts Canada’s new strategic importance with opening of new Toronto office

Identity management vendor Okta officially opened their new Toronto offices Wednesday, a four story facility where many of the employees are part of a large Toronto-based engineering team. Okta used the launch to highlight their commitment to Canada, and a Toronto non-profit that is receiving a grant from their Okta for Good program.

Okta adds free solution, and path to password-free future

The OneApp free solution is part of Okta’s long-term plan to be the de facto identity layer in any software. Okta ThreatInsight, available later this year, will replace passwords by using contextual information about users, devices and networks to assess threats.

Okta makes basic two-factor authentication standard across product line

The company is also announcing a new compromised password detection feature, as well as expanded application support for their Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication solution.

Absolute Reach script delivery and execution tool highlights new Absolute 7 platform

Absolute Reach gives customers the ability to script broadly to cover endpoints on and off the networks, by integrating their Persistence technology with a new scripting engine.

Kaseya making multiple enhancements to solution set for MSPs

In addition to new versions of AuthAnvil and Traverse, Kaseya will soon be rolling out the second generation of its PSA product – and a brand new migration solution to encourage MSPs to move to it.

RSA introduces comprehensive SecurID identity access options with new SecurID Suite

The Suite complements SecurID’s traditional two-factor authentication with identity governance and identity lifecycle management, to create a broad solution the company says defies easy classification.

BlackBerry enhances workflow capabilities, integration into business-critical apps

BlackBerry leverages the WatchDox security technology it acquired last year into three related offerings, BlackBerry Email Protector, BlackBerry for Salesforce, and an enhanced Outlook plug-in for version management in collaboration.

IndependenceIT unveils Cloud Workspace Suite 5.0 in its biggest update ever

The move up from Version 4.2 includes the adoption of Azure Active Directory as the authentication of record, a new interface, Cloud Workspace Suite’s first app services, resource scheduling, server scaling and automatic server cloning.

Dell adds XPS touches to commercial Latitude line

Dell unveiled a host of new products at this year’s CES including new monitors and consumer notebooks, but for the channel, the main story is new commercial notebooks with consumer features taken from Dell’s XPS line.