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Whether a website needs a login or not is a question that can be answered quickly – Yes! In this blog, we will take a closer look at the question of why a website needs a login.

Prior to understanding the role played by Identity & Access Management in Medical Engineering as well as the synergies between both, we need to have a closer look at today’s medical engineering sector in the context of digitalization.

Smart Grid, E-Mobilität, Smart Home, intelligente und vernetzte Geräte. Die disruptiven Entwicklungen verändern den Energiesektor und fordern den Wandel vom reinen Energieversorger hin zum Energie-Service-Dienstleister. Durch die zunehmende Digitalisierung sind neue, hybride Services hinzugekommen, die das klassische Angebot des Energiedienstleisters ergänzen, ob E-Roller, Smart Metering oder E-Tankstellen.

Bruteforce attacks are often experienced attacks that can cause major reputation damage in addition to financial damage. Those who used to swim under the radar may have to expect attacks of various kinds today. For quite some time now, Criminals are no longer just after the big companies but use the attack areas of every company. It is essential to be equipped.

Due to the increased number of various digital services in the enterprise as well as in the customer environment, Single Sign-On became increasingly critical. On the one hand, it is an essential element to provide more user comfort and a smooth journey and on the other hand, it serves to improve security. Identity and access management play a central role in the realization of Single Sign-On.

For several reasons, logging in to a website with your username and password may not be the ideal method of authentication. On one hand, the number of applications a person uses is constantly increasing. On the other hand, the security of credentials is increasingly at risk as cybercrime becomes more sophisticated and technologically advanced. Targeted brute-force attacks or seemingly harmless phishing attacks via email have become so common that users often do not even notice that their own credentials have been hacked.

Inspired by Star Trek: “Identity – infinite vastness. It’s the year 2020”, the Digital Pioneers talk about 5 years of cidaas

Using TouchID or FaceID to unlock the smartphone is the current standard. In addition to security, it is above all a question of convenience for users to unlock their smartphone quickly and easily using a biometric procedure. This was not possible in the browser of the iPhone so far. With the new major version of the Apple browser Safari 14, Apple supports biometric authentication using TouchID and FaceID (Device Biometrics) via the FIDO2 and WebAuthn standards, respectively.

We joined the Alliance for Cyber Security as a member in mid-July and then completed our onboarding as a partner at the end of August. We would like to use this short blog to describe our first experiences with the Alliance for Cyber Security and our partner contributions.

Ever since we launched cidaas a few years ago, we have been developing technology, in terms of organization and processes. And we are constantly working to incorporate the vast experience we gain every day and to implement new ideas.