We are all talking about social distancing and how current events have completely transformed our lives. Videoconferencing is at an all-time high, with companies like Zoom showing a 90% increase in daily downloads. Along with large-scale remote work adoption, our kids are telecommuting to school; a lot of us are taking online doctor visits, and by now, most have experienced … [Read more...]
MFA Trials Can Be a Burden or a Breeze – Five Tips to Quickly Spot Differences when Evaluating Multi-factor Authentication Solutions
If you are like most IT leaders evaluating multi-factor authentication solutions, you want to test it all and feel certain that you are selecting a solution that best meets the needs of your organization. Then, you consider your immediate challenges – including staffing and skills shortages along with a growing pile of IT tasks – and thoughts quickly turn to testing efficiency. … [Read more...]
Set Employees Free with Security That Travels
With the average person managing 90 accounts that require a username and password, and credential-stealing malware on the rise, your users are firmly in the crosshairs of cyber criminals. At the same time, the drive toward workplace flexibility and desire to empower people to work where they are most comfortable challenges some foundations of cyber security. More work than ever … [Read more...]
2FA Gamification – Daily Security Byte
Gamification is a great way to encourage people to follow good security practices. Epic recently held a dance competition for a new Fortnite emote. Turns out you only get the emote if you use 2FA for your Epic login. In today's video, Corey shares why he thinks this is a great idea. Episode Runtime: 4:23 Direct YouTube … [Read more...]
Hacking Door Locks and Car Locks (Or Anything Wireless)
When a wireless device of any kind sends data from one location to another, the device needs to protect the data just as if it was traveling over a wired network. Unfortunately, that is often not the case as several security researchers proved at Black Hat and Def Con. Tools exist that allowed the researchers to capture data traveling over different types of wireless protocols … [Read more...]
