Tag: multifactor authentication
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AI Impersonation: Why Detection Fails, What Actually Works Key takeaways In 2024, LastPass security teams received deepfake audio calls impersonating their CEO with voice cloning so convincing that employees nearly granted unauthorized access to sensitive systems. The attack failed only because LastPass had already implemented additional verification protocols. Most organizations don’t have that layer in place. Deepfake fraud is now happening at“industrial scale,” […] Read more -
MFA vs 2FA: What actually determines security Key takeaways You added Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) across your organization, yet phishing attacks are still getting through. If you started with SMS codes or an authenticator app, that was a reasonable decision. Any MFA will dramatically improve your risk posture over to passwords alone. However, the terms “MFA” and “two-factor authentication (2FA)” describe how many […] Read more -
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2021: Both challenging and promising for cyber security 2021 was a challenging, yet promising year for cyber security. This past year, we saw critical infrastructure, which we may have taken for granted in the past, breached and disrupted. My father, who lives in Sweden, could not buy food in his local grocery store, and coworkers and friends on the east coast in the US […] Read more -
MFA implementation and the users you need to reach: overachievers, traditionalists and cautious employees When a breach investigation team assembles after an incident at a company or organization, misinformed users often get added to the ‘suspects list’ because accidents happen that sometimes lead to holes in security. Though everyone in a company means well, just like accidentally dropping a glass or losing your car keys, the reality is that […] Read more -
Quick Take: Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity With the recent number of attacks that have had significant impact on critical systems, a new executive order on improving the nation’s cybersecurity has been released, covering many key areas that need to be addressed to protect critical digital infrastructure. This is one of the most detailed U.S. executive orders on cybersecurity and we welcome […] Read more -
Multi-factor authentication adoption – Yubico and 451 Research Within a few days of last year’s pandemic shut down in March, the business world knew something had permanently changed about the workplace. Millions of workers flooded out of traditional office environments, perhaps never to return. Security professionals worldwide scrambled to make transitioning to remote work painless, but in many cases they weren’t prepared for […] Read more -
Strong multi-factor authentication for first responders How the YubiKey ensures secure, simple, and portable access for first responders to Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) systems Read more -
Smart Cards and Phishing Resistance: What IT Teams Need Key Takeaways Most attackers don’t break in. They log in. Certificate-based smart cards have been among the strongest defenses against credential-based attacks for over two decades, and the underlying security model still holds. What strains under modern conditions is everything around it: the readers, the drivers, the middleware, the per-endpoint provisioning that made sense when […] Read more -
Why strong authentication for every employee makes sense By now, it’s an all-too-familiar routine… Step 1: Organization suffers an expensive and embarrassing security breach. Step 2: Organization hastily introduces multi-factor authentication (or steps up its efforts to mandate its usage). Oftentimes, it takes a breach to make organizations fully embrace strong authentication. But why? We know that usernames and passwords alone cannot provide sufficient security, and we know that SMS two-factor authentication (2FA) has been deprecated time […] Read more