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12 risk-based authentication tools compared

CSO Magazine

Risk-based authentication (RBA), also called adaptive authentication, has come of age, and it couldn’t happen fast enough for many corporate security managers. What is risk-based authentication? It creates a risk profile of the person or device requesting access to the system.

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How to Prevent High Risk Authentication Coercion Vulnerabilities

The State of Security

Most of us already know the basic principle of authentication, which, in its simplest form, helps us to identify and verify a user, process, or account. The post How to Prevent High Risk Authentication Coercion Vulnerabilities appeared first on The State of Security.

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How Azure Active Directory opens new authentication risks

CSO Magazine

Since some of these attacks exploit design decisions in the authentication protocols used inside Windows networks, they cannot be simply patched by Microsoft with changes in software. To read this article in full, please click here

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GUEST ESSAY: Where we stand on mitigating software risks associated with fly-by-wire jetliners

The Last Watchdog

Here’s what you should know about the risks, what aviation is doing to address those risks, and how to overcome them. It is difficult to deny that cyberthreats are a risk to planes. Risks delineated Still, there have been many other incidents since. Fortunately, there are ways to address the risks.

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How to Prevent High Risk Authentication Coercion Vulnerabilities

Security Boulevard

Most of us already know the basic principle of authentication, which, in its simplest form, helps us to identify and verify a user, process, or account. The post How to Prevent High Risk Authentication Coercion Vulnerabilities appeared first on The State of Security.

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Why authentication is still the CISO’s biggest headache

CSO Magazine

Authentication remains one of the most painstaking challenges faced by CISOs in organizations large and small. Authentication a significant obstacle for modern CISOs. Authentication continues to test CISOs for several reasons, with its modern definition being the first to address, Netskope CISO Lamont Orange tells CSO.

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Real-time is where the cybersecurity risk is

CSO Magazine

I don’t know how many times I’ve heard cybersecurity professionals say something like, “Not having multi-factor authentication is a huge risk for our organization.” The real risk is the probability of a ransomware incident, for example, or the leak of personally identifiable information (PII) from a customer database.

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