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Congratulations to the Winners Who Escaped the Dreaded Haunted House of IT

Kaseya

The Weapon: Two-Factor Authentication. Two-Factor Authentication (2FA), a form of multi-factor authentication, uses a second layer of authentication to access your systems by requiring users to provide a password (something they know) and a mobile app or token (something they have). The Threat: Malware.

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Zero-Day: Vulnerabilities, Exploits, Attacks and How to Manage Them

Kaseya

Those tools also take an inventory of all IT assets, such as servers, desktops, virtual machines, operating systems, applications and active ports, on each machine to scan them for security flaws. The infection can take the form of a virus, Trojan horse, worm, spyware, adware, rootkit or other malware like ransomware.