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Authentic leadership: Building an organization that thrives

CIO Business Intelligence

Leadership styles have traditionally centered their focus on profits, share prices, and productivity, but a new approach increasingly taken up by today’s leaders, known as “authentic leadership,” takes a different spin on the concept. But ultimately, authentic leadership can be viewed as the opposite of traditional leadership in many ways.

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Identity and Access Management: Hot or Not?

CTOvision

Stated another way, cloud applications have their own password policies, which means traditional LDAP authentication with the Active Directory becomes considerably more complex in it set up. With single sign-on (SSO), end-users only have to authenticate themselves once, entering a username and password from the Active Directory.

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Managing the whole lifecycle for human and machine authentication

CIO Business Intelligence

In my last column for CIO.com , I outlined some of the cybersecurity issues around user authentication for verification of consumer and business accounts. . FIDO as an industry initiative was set up a decade ago to standardize the need for strong authentication/password technologies. Well, yes, but there is more that tech pros can do.

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Counterfeit Cisco switches raise network security alarms

Network World

In a disconcerting event for IT security professionals, counterfeit versions of Cisco Catalyst 2960-X Series switches were discovered on an unnamed business network, and the fake gear was found to be designed to circumvent typical authentication procedures, according to a report from F-Secure.

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Application List Report

Mick's IT Blog

Here is an example of my ARPExclusions.txt file: 64 Bit HP CIO Components Installer Active Directory Authentication Library for SQL Server Active Directory Authentication Library for SQL Server (x86) Administrative Templates (.admx) You can download the script from my GitHub site located here.

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Adding Security Keys to Your Authentication Toolbox

SecureWorld News

A quick intro to security keys: A security key can work in place of other forms of two-factor authentication such as receiving a code through SMS or pressing a button in an authentication app. When it came to authenticating, both keys worked just fine. Then, you enter your password and that's that.

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There’s a better way to protect yourself from hackers and identity thieves

Vox

Authenticator apps like Google Authenticator might seem intimidating, but they’re easy to use and safer than texts. If you’re using texts for two-factor authentication, it’s time to change to an app. And you always use two-factor authentication, or 2FA. How to choose and use an authenticator app. No, “Passw0rd!”