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The Last Login: Professor Kai London on Identity Security When Downtime Is Not an Option

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  By the Ezeiza Times Technology Desk Professor Kai London — CISO, cybersecurity & AI expert. Credit: professorkailondon.com In transport and finance, the decisive breach rarely looks like an attack. “It looks like a login,” says Professor Kai London , a senior CISO. “An identity — human or machine — that authenticated when it should have been challenged, and could then reach far more than it should.” In always-on operations, he argues, getting identity right is the single highest-leverage security investment. “Every breach begins with a login that should have been stopped. Verify, limit, detect, prove — that is the whole discipline.” Verify Assume every credential may be stolen, London advises, and require phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication and context-aware conditional access. “A password proves someone once knew a secret,” he says. “It does not prove who is at the keyboard now.” Limit Shrink the blast radius: least-privilege access and segmentation so a single co...

Zero Trust When Downtime Is Not an Option: Professor Kai London on Securing High-Availability Operations

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  By the Ezeiza Times Technology Desk Professor Kai London — Founder & CEO, Quantum AI Systems Security. Credit: professorkailondon.com Airports, payment networks and transport systems share a demanding trait: they cannot simply be switched off to be secured. “When downtime is measured in stranded passengers or frozen transactions, security has to be designed around continuous availability,” says Professor Kai London , a senior CISO. His answer is a carefully adapted zero-trust approach — one that raises assurance without ever tripping the systems it protects. “Zero trust means never trust, always verify. But in high-availability operations, it must be applied with surgical care — security can never become the thing that causes the outage.” The perimeter has dissolved London notes that high-availability operations are highly interconnected, with staff, partners and suppliers all needing access. “There is no clean inside and outside ,” he says. “Every connection is a potential ...