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...]
2020 Security Predictions: MFA Becomes Standard for Midsized Companies
We predict that multi-factor authentication (MFA) will become a standard security control for midmarket companies in 2020. Whether it’s due to billions of emails and passwords having leaked onto the dark web, or the many database and password compromises online businesses suffer each year, or the fact that users still use silly and insecure passwords, the industry has finally … [Read more...]
$98 Million Spent Just To Replace Credit Cards in 2018
How much should you spend on cyber defense, recovery, and insurance? A recent research study from WEIS [PDF]—a collection of cyber security researchers—analyzes the costs of cyber crime and how it has changed over the years. While the report mostly covers world e-commerce losses and how governments can combat them, it also reports cyber security trends, and their findings match … [Read more...]
Chinese Hackers Infect 50k Servers
What a headline, huh? That’s quite the number of infected servers found during a recently discovered and tracked malware campaign. At a very high level, this campaign focused on mass-scanning servers for specific services, cataloguing servers that responded, then feeding that list into a password brute force tool. Once infiltrated, malicious payloads were used to perform … [Read more...]
