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By: Joel Carleton, CSID Director of Cyber Engineering We’ve all heard that it’s important to pick long, complicated passwords. What you may not realize is why this becomes crucial in the context of a breach. While ensuring you don’t pick from some of the most common passwords is important, it’s still not enough.  Some background information on [...]

The Center for Identity at the University of Texas at Austin held the first annual ID360 Conference this week. CSID was there  in support of our VP of sales Marc Ostryniec, who presented on how proactive credential monitoring can reduce the risk of fraud that is an inherent problem when employees mishandle company credentials or [...]

With more than 800 million users worldwide, Facebook has become the defacto standard in social networking platforms.  One of its most important features, the ability to quickly and easily scan whether or not you know people by looking at common connections, has expanded networks across the entire world. You all know this already…  but how [...]

PC Mag recently published an infographic that visualizes a study by Commtouch about “The State of Hacked Accounts.” Commtouch collected data from email users who have had their email accounts hacked to draw conclusions about email security and the motives of email hackers. Findings: The study found that two-thirds of hacked email accounts are used [...]