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Avatier Unveils Patent-Pending Enterprise Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) to Prevent Catastrophic Data Breaches

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Microsoft, PIN, Government, MFA, ServiceNow, RACF, Internet, PIV, SAP, IBM, SSPR, Paramount, SSO, Workforce, PeopleSoft, ID, Patent, Kansas City Chiefs, IGA, Online shopping

In an era where data security is paramount, Avatier's commitment to excellence takes a leap forward, offering a game-changing 2024 Enterprise Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) solution.

Key Points: 
  • In an era where data security is paramount, Avatier's commitment to excellence takes a leap forward, offering a game-changing 2024 Enterprise Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) solution.
  • With no enrollment needed for most major MFA providers, Avatier enhances your current password management solution, offering assisted password reset with verification as an essential security layer.
  • Why don’t we use the same method for both?”
    To address enterprise self-service password management challenges, Avatier emphasizes many user enrollment options and widespread convenient usability.
  • The Avatier Password Management solution, when implemented alongside existing password reset systems, offers unparalleled flexibility with multiple enrollment options.

Mark Farrah Associates Simplifies Analysis of the Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plan Senior Markets

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Friday, April 5, 2024
Professional Services, Public Policy, Government, Health, Healthcare Reform, Insurance, Health Insurance, Finance, PDP, MBO, Medicare, Data, MFA, CMS

Mark Farrah Associates’ (MFA), www.markfarrah.com , Medicare Business Online™ (MBO) product simplifies the analysis and tracking of Medicare Advantage (MA) and stand-alone Prescription Drug Plan (PDP) enrollment by health plan as released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Key Points: 
  • Mark Farrah Associates’ (MFA), www.markfarrah.com , Medicare Business Online™ (MBO) product simplifies the analysis and tracking of Medicare Advantage (MA) and stand-alone Prescription Drug Plan (PDP) enrollment by health plan as released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
  • Easy-to-navigate tables with download to Excel functionality allow for swift monitoring of competitive positions in the MA and stand-alone PDP senior markets.
  • Data is organized at national, state, and county levels and is aggregated by parent, contract, and plan.
  • Trend data for Medicare Eligibles and current enrollment for Original Medicare are also featured.

Strata Identity Promotes Gerry Gebel to Vice President of Product and Standards

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Thursday, April 4, 2024
Data Management, Security, Apps, Applications, Technology, Software, Networks, Internet, Organization, Chase Bank, MFA, Numeral prefix, Strategic planning, Policy, OpenID, Consultant, CNCF, Architecture, Service, SAML, Fortune 500, Arcadia Group, JPMorgan Chase, Privacy, PKI, Gartner, Management

Strata Identity , the Identity Orchestration company, today announced that its Head of Standards, Gerry Gebel, will also serve as the company’s Vice President of Product.

Key Points: 
  • Strata Identity , the Identity Orchestration company, today announced that its Head of Standards, Gerry Gebel, will also serve as the company’s Vice President of Product.
  • For over 20 years, Gerry has provided requirements definitions, architecture development and strategic planning for identity management projects with Fortune 500 corporations.
  • In addition to his work promoting industry standards with IDQL for identity and policy orchestration with the CNCF on Hexa and the OpenID Foundation’s AuthZEN Working Group , Gerry assumes responsibility for overseeing the Strata product management team and defining product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
  • “The identity landscape is at an inflection point with legacy identity systems reaching end-of-life and cloud identity providers creating a new set of silos that prevent organizations from unifying identity and policy management across multi-clouds,” said Gerry Gebel.

N-able Collaborates with Microsoft to Maximize the Cloud for MSPs with N-able Cloud Commander

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Professional Services, Data Management, Security, Technology, Human Resources, Software, Networks, Cloud, Online, Microsoft, Automation, Microsoft Windows, MFA, BitLocker, SharePoint, NABL, Business, OneDrive, Research, Tenant, Defender, SME, Multimedia, Video game

The Microsoft cloud continues to grow at a fast pace and remains a critical element for businesses worldwide.

Key Points: 
  • The Microsoft cloud continues to grow at a fast pace and remains a critical element for businesses worldwide.
  • Cloud Commander also grants MSPs with the ability to set least privileged access for their team enabling them to help keep their staff and clients secure.
  • With Cloud Commander, MSPs can now manage, secure, standardize and automate Microsoft 365, Azure, Intune and up next, Windows 365, all from a single view.
  • “N-able’s support for Windows 365 will allow MSPs to provide their customers with access to a familiar, secure, and persistent Windows experience managed with other Microsoft services via the Cloud Commander console.”

Mark Farrah Associates Reviewed Enrollment Mix and Financial Metrics for Leading Health Plans

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Public Policy, Government, Insurance, Finance, Health, Healthcare Reform, Banking, Professional Services, Health Insurance, UnitedHealth Group, Medicare, CVS Health, Medicaid, MFA, CVS, HCSC, Health insurance

Mark Farrah Associates (MFA), www.markfarrah.com , reviewed final year-end 2022 enrollment mix and financial metrics for the top 5 health plans.

Key Points: 
  • Mark Farrah Associates (MFA), www.markfarrah.com , reviewed final year-end 2022 enrollment mix and financial metrics for the top 5 health plans.
  • UnitedHealth, Elevance Inc., CVS Health, Centene, and Health Care Service Corp. (HCSC) insured 43% Americans in the commercial, Medicare and Medicaid markets.
  • Key takeaways include:
    For 2022, leading health carriers comprised 38% for the commercial market and 22% for government lines.
  • Insights for this analysis were gleaned from MFA’s online database tool, Health Plans USA™ , an analytics tool for comparing market mix, market share and financial information about health plans, nationwide.

AI and automation have helped organizations respond to security incidents up to 99% faster than last year, according to new study from ReliaQuest

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Software, Networks, Internet, Artificial Intelligence, Data Management, Technology, Mobile, Wireless, Security, Automation, Web browser, Attention, Organization, PowerShell, MFA, Intelligence, Bleeding, Research, Limbo of the Lost, AI, Crime, MTTR, Denial-of-service attack, Email spoofing, Research report, Citrix Systems, Human

This is according to the ReliaQuest Annual Threat Report , which contains in-depth analysis of key security incidents and research from the past year, offering insights into the threats that organizations face.

Key Points: 
  • This is according to the ReliaQuest Annual Threat Report , which contains in-depth analysis of key security incidents and research from the past year, offering insights into the threats that organizations face.
  • Drive-by compromise has been traditionally defined as the automatic download of a malicious file from a compromised website without user interaction.
  • However, in most cases reviewed during the reporting period, user action was involved—facilitating initial access in nearly 30% of incidents.
  • However, while AI-powered automation is being leveraged by attackers, it has also delivered a step change in defensive capabilities among organizations.

SpyCloud Report: 61% of Data Breaches in 2023 Were Malware Related

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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SpyCloud found that 61% of data breaches in 2023, involving over 343 million stolen credentials, were infostealer malware-related.

Key Points: 
  • SpyCloud found that 61% of data breaches in 2023, involving over 343 million stolen credentials, were infostealer malware-related.
  • Between August and December 2023, SpyCloud recaptured 10.58 million mobile records exfiltrated by malware.
  • SpyCloud researchers found 723 breaches containing .gov emails in 2023, up from 695 in 2022 and 611 in 2021.
  • The most noteworthy data leaks recaptured by SpyCloud last year:
    To view the full report, visit spycloud.com .

Insights on Leading Employers in Top Business Sectors and Insurers that Serve Them by Mark Farrah Associates

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Monday, March 25, 2024
Public Policy, Government, Insurance, Finance, General Health, Health, Healthcare Reform, Banking, Professional Services, Blue Shield, Fashion merchandising, Welfare, Retail, Walmart, MFA, Internal Revenue Service, UPMC, Mass General Brigham, ERISA, Average revenue per user, Health care, Mass, Health insurance

Mark Farrah Associates (MFA), www.markfarrah.com , presents a high-level analysis of the leading employers in top business sectors, as well as the key health benefit insurers that serve them, utilizing information from MFA’s 5500 Employer Health Plus product.

Key Points: 
  • Mark Farrah Associates (MFA), www.markfarrah.com , presents a high-level analysis of the leading employers in top business sectors, as well as the key health benefit insurers that serve them, utilizing information from MFA’s 5500 Employer Health Plus product.
  • Large private-sector employers providing health and welfare benefit plans subject to ERISA are required to file the annual Form 5500 with the Internal Revenue Service.
  • Observations obtained from 5500 Employer Health Plus are based on 86,200 employers that indicated they had active health benefit contracts as of their most recent filings.
  • Private-sector employers reported 89.7 million potential plan participants across the spectrum of all health benefit contracts.

New Strata Cookbook and Identity Orchestration Recipes Automate Microsoft Active Directory Modernization and Coexistence with Microsoft Entra ID

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Thursday, March 21, 2024
Data Management, Security, Apps, Applications, Technology, Software, Networks, Internet, Microsoft, Organization, Directory, MFA, Active Directory, IDP, Entra, Internally displaced person, First officer (aviation), Microsoft Windows, WAM, Cookbook, SSO, Okta, Security association, Kerberos, MISA, Video game

Strata Identity , the Identity Orchestration company, today announced a new Microsoft Identity Cookbook, which includes several Orchestration Recipes that manage the complex identity relationships and processes for moving Windows applications from Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to cloud-based Microsoft Entra ID and extending Microsoft Entra ID to on-premises legacy Windows apps that do not support modern cloud identity protocols.

Key Points: 
  • Strata Identity , the Identity Orchestration company, today announced a new Microsoft Identity Cookbook, which includes several Orchestration Recipes that manage the complex identity relationships and processes for moving Windows applications from Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to cloud-based Microsoft Entra ID and extending Microsoft Entra ID to on-premises legacy Windows apps that do not support modern cloud identity protocols.
  • Working with Strata’s Maverics Identity Orchestration platform, these identity orchestration recipes enable organizations to securely move authentication from Microsoft AD to Microsoft Entra ID and/or support the coexistence of AD and Entra ID indefinitely.
  • These new orchestration recipes and additional resources addressing Microsoft AD and Microsoft Entra ID application modernization challenges are available on the Strata Microsoft Cookbook page .
  • Modernizing application authentication away from Microsoft AD to Microsoft Entra ID, or extending Entra ID to on-premises apps requires extensive, expensive, and time-consuming rewrites.

NAPFM, MFA, and AIMA File Lawsuit Against SEC to Vacate Dealer Rule

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Monday, March 18, 2024
Asset Management, Professional Services, Finance, Congress, MFA, District court, LLP, Security (finance), AIMA, Gibson Dunn, National Association, Financial adviser

Bryan Corbett, President & CEO of MFA, said: “We were left with no choice but to challenge the Dealer Rule, because it will harm markets and create tremendous uncertainty for investors.

Key Points: 
  • Bryan Corbett, President & CEO of MFA, said: “We were left with no choice but to challenge the Dealer Rule, because it will harm markets and create tremendous uncertainty for investors.
  • The Dealer Rule is indeterminate and leaves certain market participants uncertain of their need to comply with the dealer regulatory framework.
  • The petitioners argue the Dealer Rule must be vacated and set aside in its entirety because:
    The SEC lacks the statutory authority to adopt the definition in the Dealer Rule because the rule captures firms that are not, and have never been considered, dealers and lacks any limiting principle.
  • The SEC engaged in arbitrary and capricious decision making, including by failing to adequately address the economic consequences of the Dealer Rule.