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This month’s CloudConnexa update is a short one: results are in from our Zero Trust survey, and we built a free tool to take the guesswork out of subnet math.
Plus, you can now enable multiple authentication methods, which lets you run SAML SSO and local credentials simultaneously, with per-user control. If you've been managing contractors outside your IdP or looking for a fallback when SSO goes down, it’s worth turning on today. Stay tuned for the full story next month, but in the meantime, you can learn more here.
P.S. Last call on our Gartner® report on risk-tiered cybersecurity for business travel — it wraps up this month.
Headed to Black Hat USA (Aug 4–6, Las Vegas, Booth #6020)? Stop by for a demo. |
New Research: 40% of Employees Have Access They Shouldn’t |
We surveyed 45 IT and business leaders about how their organizations actually manage network access — and the results point to a hygiene problem hiding in plain sight.
- 40% of employees have had access to sensitive data beyond what their role requires, and most organizations are slow to fix it when roles change.
- Compliance, not breach risk, is the #1 driver of Zero Trust adoption.
- 68% of IT professionals would use AI features in their security platform, but there’s a real gap between that comfort and actually turning them on.
Access Server’s group-based access controls and multi-factor authentication give you a straightforward way to close that gap without adding new infrastructure. |
New: A Free Tool for Subnet Math (No More Whiteboard Binary) |
Subnetting by hand is easy to get wrong — a miscalculated mask can knock out a range of IPs or misroute traffic on a site-to-site tunnel. Our new Subnet Calculator does the math for you: enter an IPv4 or IPv6 address with a CIDR prefix or subnet mask, and get the network address, broadcast address, usable host range, and wildcard mask in one step.
It’s a handy second check before you configure a new Access Server route or troubleshoot a site-to-site VPN that isn’t passing traffic the way you expect. No sign-up required. |
FORBES: Having Security Controls Is Not The Same As Being Secure
Owning a security tool isn’t the same as knowing it’s working. In his latest Forbes piece, OpenVPN CEO Francis Dinha makes the case that closing the gap between what your protections claim and what your environment actually reveals comes down to one thing: visibility into whether your tools are doing their jobs. |
Good to know: OpenVPN shares a weekly cybersecurity news roundup to keep our readers informed. Check out our most recent This Week in Cybersecurity posts for the latest industry headlines. |
Who remembers when everyone else leaves? AI may soon know more about your company than any single employee, if… someone taught it well in the first place. As institutional knowledge shifts from people to models, who’s really preserving your organization’s expertise? Watch the discussion: Palantir CEO Alex Karp says ‘something has gone completely wrong’ with how AI is sold.
Big clues come in tiny packages. That little browser icon isn’t just branding. A favicon can reveal what software you’re running, expose honeypots, and help map infrastructure across the internet. See why attackers (and defenders) are paying attention to the smallest image on your website: On Favicons: From Browser Icons to Attack Surface Intelligence.
The poles showed up first. Across the US, communities are discovering new AI-powered surveillance cameras after they’re installed, not before. See why the conversation is shifting from “Can we?” to “Who decides?”: Flock surveillance cameras are spreading across the US.
Patch first. Coffee second. Critical vulnerabilities affecting UniFi devices are another reminder that internet-facing infrastructure doesn’t stay safe simply because it’s quiet. See what’s affected and why timely patching keeps getting harder: Ubiquiti Patches Critical UniFi Flaws Across Connect, Talk, Access, Protect, and OS. |
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