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My New Year’s Resolution: Going Passwordless!

Ivanti

Another best practice that I started several years ago was to adopt a passwordless authentication initiative for all my internet connected personal devices. Fortunately for me, my company began enforcing zero sign-on authentication along with deploying a multi-layered anti-phishing protection system several years back.

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Humans Can be Hacked. So Stop Using Passwords, Already!

Ivanti

FIDO2 is the most secure passwordless identity authenticator option out there today especially if it is used in a multi-factor authentication (MFA) system to securely access your digital work resources and services. There is your MFA system right there. How cool is that?

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9 Types of Phishing and Ransomware Attacks—And How to Identify Them

Ivanti

The most common phishing delivery tactics are email and attachments, text and multimedia messages, telephone and malicious advertisement networks. End users are easily coaxed into divulging their precious personal information because of attention-grabbing headlines and authentic-looking, obfuscated or shortened hyperlinks. Learn more.

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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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Breaking Down the NASCIO Top 10 for 2023

Palo Alto Networks

With the Palo Alto Networks platform approach to building and operating a modernized, future-proof security framework, you can integrate cybersecurity into every initiative to protect data and ensure continuity of services. Palo Alto Networks takes a holistic approach to cybersecurity across the organization.

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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

In this blog post, I will address selected specific incidents which have demonstrated the range and gravity of threats to the stability and security of the internet’s routing system. During the leak, a large portion of the internet’s traffic was redirected to AS7007, where it overwhelmed its networking equipment and was dropped.

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Radar trends to watch: August 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Good practices for authentication, backups, and software updates are the best defense against ransomware and many other attacks. The National Institute of Standards (NIST) tests systems for identifying airline passengers for flight boarding. greet”) when the system can’t predict more specific behaviors (e.g., AI and Data.

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