NEWS
Sunrise deploys Nokia’s
Converged Charging software
to drive 5G monetisation
KnowBe4
launches
browser
password
inspector tool
KnowBe4, a provider of one of the
world’s largest security awareness
training and simulated phishing platforms,
recently announced it has launched a new,
complimentary tool called the Browser
Password Inspector to help better protect
organisations from ransomware attacks,
credential theft and account takeovers.
The issue with saving passwords in
browsers is that many users are reusing
the same passwords for work and personal
accounts, which puts organisations at a
higher risk. The 2018 Global Password
Security Report found that 50% of users
have the same passwords for both personal
and work accounts.
Sunrise Communications AG, the
Swiss operator, has deployed
Nokia’s cloud-native converged
charging software in order to more
rapidly package, price and promote a
wide range of consumer and business
services and to future enhance the
user experience for the company’s 3.5
million customers.
Developed for the needs of 5G, Internetconnected
devices and multi-vendor
deployments, Nokia Converged Charging
(previously called Nokia Smart Plan Suite)
provides the flexibility to react quickly to
changing market conditions.
5G enables new business speed,
scale and innovation, along with
growing demands for premium digital
experiences. In the era of digitalisation,
this trend touches B2C, B2B and B2B2x
business models and sets a new pace
for service launches. This calls for agile,
highly flexible Business Support Systems
(BSS) capabilities.
Converged Charging offers the
performance and reliability required to
efficiently deliver high-quality digital
services and is built on Nokia’s Common
Software Foundation, which makes
Nokia’s software products easier to
deploy, integrate, use and service.
Nokia, together with Sunrise, delivered
deployment and migration services.
With this deployment and the future
phases, Sunrise can now quickly create
differentiated offers even for the most
complex IoT use cases and services
enabled by 5G network slicing.
Over 270 service providers around the
world rely on Nokia’s monetisation solution
to deliver service innovation, covering more
than 1.8 billion subscriptions.
The new Browser Password Inspector
inspects all available user machines on an
organisation’s network and identifies their
at-risk users by scanning and searching for
passwords saved in the browser.
Password Browser Inspector also checks
to see if users are using known weak
passwords, old passwords or using
the same password across multiple
sites. Browser Password Inspector then
generates a detailed but secure report on
the user accounts affected to show the
organisation’s vulnerability to credential
theft, account takeovers, falling victim
to a data breach or a network-wide
ransomware infection.
“Saving often-used passwords in a browser
may seem convenient, but users should
think twice before doing this because
the bad guys can go after them, leaving
an organisation more vulnerable to
cyberattacks,” said Stu Sjouwerman, CEO,
KnowBe4. “This new tool will help you to
stop the bad guys from finding and dumping
passwords that they find in employees’
web browsers. IT admins can quickly
identify password security vulnerabilities in
Chrome, Firefox and Edge web browsers and
examine browser-saved credentials of your
organisation’s Active Directory.”
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