Last week, the Australian online edition of CIO magazine published a great set of questions your CEO should be asking IT staff about replacing their existing strong authentication solution. Three key questions in the article are particularly interesting in wake of the recent news from RSA:

1. How much is distributing new tokens going to cost the organization?
2. When will we receive the replacements? Six months? Twelve months?
3. Are there any alternative two-factor authentication offerings that are lower cost and more convenient that would save the organization operating expenses without compromising security?

Most organizations seeking to mitigate the potential risk to their sensitive networks posed by the RSA breach...

The RSA Conference 2011 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco has officially kicked off and the VIP team is starting the week off strong. Our VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) Authentication Service is part of several exciting announcements this week and below is a brief look at what's in the news.

Ping Identity Integrates VIP to Deliver Cloud-Based Authentication with Single Sign-On
Ping Identity announced that it has integrated VIP into its PingFederate identity federate suite. The PingFederate Integration kit for VIP creates a solution that enables enterprises to secure remote workers with strong authentication, while providing them a single online identity with single sign-on across both internal applications and almost every leading cloud application. The complete press release can be...

According to a recent story in SearchSecurity.com UK, the EU Emissions Trading System was recently suspended by the European Union following what was described as "recurring security breaches in national registries over the last two months." The thefts involved $38 million worth of carbon credits.

Bloomberg reported that the latest breach occurred at Prague-based Electricity Market Operator (OTE), a government owned energy trading platform where over $7 million worth of carbon credits had been stolen and sold in the open market.

The Bloomberg story also reported that the OTE was...