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Security in Higher Ed: Trust, Student Experience, and Multi-Factor Authentication

September 24, 2020 By Sam Manjarres

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

April 8, 2020 By Sam Manjarres

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

February 14, 2020 By Sam Manjarres

MFA Trial Tips

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

February 28, 2016 By Corey Nachreiner

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

November 20, 2015 By Corey Nachreiner

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...]

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