Higher education institutions work constantly to build smarter campuses. These advances tend to focus on digital transformation and overall more accessible, user-friendly resources to enable the academic experience from any device, anywhere. Colleges strive to be a big, fun, stimulating, shared macrocosm: the place to learn together and share knowledge and unique … [Read more...]
Authenticating Our Way Through Remote Life
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...]
Play-Doh Hacks iPhone – Daily Security Byte EP. 224
Some say passwords are dead, and offer solutions like biometrics to solve our authentication problems. However, if children's Play-Doh can defeat fingerprint readers, are biometrics really that much better? Watch Friday's episode to learn more about a new iPhone fingerprint reader hack, and why I think multi-factor authentication is the real solution. (Episode Runtime: … [Read more...]
Amazon 2FA – Daily Security Byte EP. 179
Great news for Black Friday shoppers who use Amazon! The well known online retailer has finally enabled free two-factor authentication (2FA) for its customers. Watch today's video to learn why I think you should turn it on, and why I think 2FA is important for all IT organizations. (Episode Runtime: 2:19) Direct YouTube … [Read more...]