Not all forms of MFA are created equal—at protecting against cyberattacks, in terms of the friction created for end users or IT support teams, or the ability to seamlessly work with the technology stack.
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Despite the growing tide and sophistication of cyber attacks, many organizations continue to rely on legacy authentication methods such as usernames and passwords and mobile-based authentication, to secure access to critical and sensitive applications and data.
While any form of multi-factor authentication...
Did you know 90% of all internet breaches are due to stolen login credentials? SMS, mobile authentication apps, and legacy one-time passcodes (OTPs) are vulnerable to today’s advanced threats.
To stop modern threats you must have modern phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA).
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A month after his firm was taken private in a $6.9 billion deal, SailPoint founder and CEO Mark McClain discusses the prospect of consolidation, emerging competition and plans to expand "more quickly and aggressively" in the identity governance space - thanks to Thoma Bravo's financial backing.
Research by Dun & Bradstreet says business identity fraud jumped 254% in 2020. Tools can help prevent this fraud but may create greater friction, say Andrew La Marca, senior director at Dun & Bradstreet, and Ralph Gagliardi, agent in charge, High Tech Crimes Unit, Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
The average person believes using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) makes them significantly less likely to be hacked. That is simply not true! Hackers can bypass 90-95% of MFA solutions much easier than you would think. Using a regular looking phishing email, they can bypass MFA just as easily as if it were a simple...
Enterprises spend a lot of time on what zero trust is, but too little time on design thinking - and why cybersecurity solutions need that element baked in from the start. Brian Barnier and Prachee Kale of ThinkDesignCyber and CyberTheory Institute give an overview of their zero trust strategy.
Cloudflare credits hardware multifactor authentication with preventing bad actors behind a targeted phishing campaign from gaining access to its internal systems. Although attackers siphoned employee credentials, the hard key authentication requirement stopped attackers from snatching a soft token.
Twilio, which runs a customer engagement platform used by thousands of businesses, says that its employees were tricked via SMS phishing messages into giving attackers their login credentials, resulting in the theft of information on customers, as well as their customers and end users.
In the wake of President Biden's 2021 executive order, security leaders across sectors are now seeking phishing-resistant multifactor authentication. But what exactly is it, and how is it best deployed? Yubico's Derek Hanson outlines a mature approach to MFA.
The authentication journey is evolving rapidly with no sign of slowing down. Digital transformation, that was already on the rise, has accelerated with the pandemic. With this new business paradigm of hybrid work and an increased usage of digital resources, users including employees and consumers are demanding much...
The Twitter and YouTube accounts of the British Army were briefly taken over on Sunday evening by unidentified hackers who posted content related to cryptocurrency and NFTs. The situation has now been resolved, but the U.K. Ministry of Defense says the investigation is ongoing.
The need for more modern identity and access management capabilities such as biometric and passwordless authentication has been amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to remote work, according to Forrester researchers Paul McKay and Merritt Maxim.
More than 80% of hacking breaches involve brute force or the use of lost or stolen credentials. Two- factor authentication
is the simplest, most effective way to make sure users really are who they say they are. By verifying your users’ identities before they access your network, two-factor authentication protects...
With the ongoing pandemic driving digital transformation and hybrid work, it's no surprise that the theme of this year's RSA Conference was "transform." Carrying forward that theme, RSA CEO Rohit Ghai says that channeling "disruptive forces at play" can be a powerful tool for driving needed changes.
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