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Why Multi-Factor Authentication is Key to Modern Cybersecurity

CIO Business Intelligence

According to recent data from the Identity Theft Resource Center , there was a 14% increase in data breaches and compromises in the first quarter of 2022 compared to 2021. One of the best ways to ensure security? Multi-factor authentication, or MFA. IT Leadership, Security million to $4.24

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Buyer’s guide: Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Secure Service Edge (SSE)

Network World

What today is known as secure service edge (SSE) started under a different name — secure access service edge (SASE) — with a slightly different meaning. In 2019, Gartner created the term SASE to describe a cloud-based service that combines networking and security to give remote workers safe access to internet-based resources.

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Seven Signs That Your Consumers are Ready for Passwordless Authentication

CIO Business Intelligence

Customer demand for passwordless authentication has grown exponentially since smartphones first began offering built-in biometric readers. A staggering 93% of consumers preferred biometric authentication to passwords — and yet so many companies still force their customers to use risky, outdated login credentials. Your first clue?

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Architecting Identity: Five Essential Elements of a Modern Customer Authentication Service

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2021, the Federal Trade Commission [1] received 2.8 Traditional IAM, however, was built to manage internal employees, which means that the organization has control over connecting users to their real identities, birthright provisioning and device security. 5 Essential modern customer authentication elements that FIDO enables.

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From Sensors to Servers: End-to-End Security for IoT in Critical Utility Networks

SecureWorld News

In 2021, for example, hackers attempted to manipulate the chemical levels in a Florida water treatment plant by breaching remote access systems. Device-level security: It starts at the sensor. Every security strategy begins with the smallest, often-overlooked component: the sensor. Here's how to do it.

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White House brands BGP routing a ‘national security concern’ as it unveils reform roadmap

Network World

The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) has published its roadmap for fixing increasingly troublesome security weaknesses in the Internet’s core routing protocol, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). These enforce an authentication check that a network has the right to advertise a route before receiving packets.

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S&R Forum 2021: Passwordless Authentication Adoption Is Gaining Momentum

Forrester IT

Passwordless authentication, in the form of inherence factors (e.g., location, user behavior), is an emerging authentication technology that will protect organizations from brute force attacks, credential stuffing, phishing, and social engineering tactics. fingerprint, facial) or in the form of possession factors (e.g.,