The NERC (North American Electric Reliability Corporation) compliance guidelines serve as the backbone for ensuring the security and reliability of the electrical grid. In the face of growing cyber threats, Network Access Control (NAC) plays a pivotal role in supporting NERC compliance from a cybersecurity perspective. By implementing NAC, organizations...
The Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT) is an online self-assessment tool that allows organizations to measure their performance against the National Data Guardian’s 10 data security standards. Portnox’s cloud-native platform for zero trust access control meets and supports these critical security standards in a variety of different and interconnected...
Enron. WorldCom. Adelphia. Tyco. Qwest. Of all the things that marked the early years after the turn of the century, the wave of corporate fraud scandals has left a lasting mark on the landscape of American business. In the wake of these scandals, the ground-breaking Sarbanes-Oxley act was passed, and...
Passwordless Authentication Passwords were never designed to secure modern enterprise environments, yet many organizations still rely on them to control access across networks and remote users. Passwordless authentication solutions eliminate shared secrets entirely, verifying users and devices without passwords to reduce identity-related risk. Portnox delivers a cloud-native, certificate-based passwordless solution...
Establishing an Effective Network Security Posture Requires the Unification of Access Control, Risk Mitigation & Endpoint Remediation Capabilities There’s a movement underway in cybersecurity today to adopt tools for enterprise network authentication – whether it be for WiFi authentication or wired port authentication. This trend makes sense. After all, authentication...
Any IT team can set-up remote network access with minimal guidance. Without the proper parameters, however, this remote access has the potential to be open to everyone – not just for those it was designed to serve. When setting up secure remote network access control, there are three components to...
