When it comes to information and services you use that are exposed to the internet, keeping them as secure as possible is important. The first step is to have a secure, unique password. After that, ...

As passwords routinely fail to protect users, multi-factor authentication (MFA) is fast emerging as the new gold standard of cybersecurity. By adding extra layers of protection, MFA is able to block ...

In April 2021, the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department suffered a massive data leak when hackers breached its network in a ransomware attack. The attackers claimed to have stolen more than ...

Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) describes digital authentication solutions that require the user to share two or more “secrets” that only the user and the authentication system should know to prove ...

Stu Sjouwerman is the founder and CEO of KnowBe4 Inc., a security awareness training and simulated phishing platform. Verizon research pegs 82% of all cyberattacks on ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. No two cybersecurity strategies are exactly the same, but ...

Every MFA check passed. Every login was legitimate. The compliance dashboard was green across every identity control. And the attacker was already inside, moving laterally through Active Directory ...

Forget what you know about “made for advertising.” There’s a push now to redefine MFA as “made for arbitrage.” Despite the backlash against MFA websites, there is still no industry standard to define ...