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Changing your Gmail password regularly is crucial for maintaining the security of your account. Whether you're using a smartphone, tablet, or computer, Google provides simple strategies to update your password. This guide will walk you through the process step-by-step and explain what happens after you change your password. We'll also cover how to reset a forgotten password and explore additional security features to secure your Gmail account.

Traditional identity and access management methods are becoming obsolete as cyber threats rise and IT environments grow more complex. Identity as a Service (IDaaS) provides a cloud-based solution for managing identities securely and efficiently, offering Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and compliance features. Unlike on-premises IAM, IDaaS scales effortlessly, integrates with various applications, and eliminates password-related security risks. Hideez Enterprise Identity enhances security with passwordless authentication methods, including passkeys, mobile authentication, and FIDO-certified security keys. The Hideez Authenticator app simplifies secure logins via biometrics or QR code scanning, ensuring phishing-resistant access to web services, VPNs, and workstations. With increasing demand for scalable and flexible identity solutions, enterprises must adopt IDaaS to streamline access control, enhance security, and support remote work environments.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, more commonly known by its abbreviation HIPAA, is a crucial piece of legislation that provides a federal floor and sets a high standard for patient data confidentiality. HIPAA’s role is especially relevant with the increasing intertwinement of digital platforms and healthcare practices

Even in 2024, we still primarily rely on traditional methods of authentication based on a username/password combination. However, not only is this method impractical the more passwords you need to remember, but there are also many more efficient and more secure methods of cyber authentication. One of the increasingly more popular forms of authentication is Proximity-Based Authentication.