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Access Control: The 5 Single Sign-On Benefits

IT Security Guru

SSO allows users to access multiple applications, and the underlying data, without having to re-authenticate to access each application. Supports Business to Business (B2B), Business to Consumer (B2C) and Business to Employee (B2E) activities (e.g., While VPNs create a trusted zone, they have their own set of vulnerabilities.

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Update now! Patch Tuesday January 2023 includes one actively exploited vulnerability

Malwarebytes

In a network-based attack, an unauthenticated attacker could bypass authentication and make an anonymous connection. Synology issued an advisory about a vulnerability that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands through a susceptible version of VPN Plus Server. SAP published 12 new and updated patches.

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Multi-Factor Authentication Best Practices & Solutions

eSecurity Planet

Passwords are the most common authentication tool used by enterprises, yet they are notoriously insecure and easily hackable. Recently, hackers leaked 87,000 Fortinet VPN passwords , mostly from companies who hadn’t yet patched a two-year-old vulnerability. Jump to: What is multi-factor authentication? MFA can be hacked.

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Top 5 Attack Vectors to Look Out For in 2022

Security Affairs

The technologies used by organizations to facilitate remote work include virtual private network (VPN) connections and remote desktop protocol (RDP). Opportunistic threat actors know that with remote work not going away, there will be chances to gain entry to corporate networks by exploiting RDP and VPN connections.

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Insert Tokens to Play! OpenID Connect (OIDC) Support in Duo SSO Is Now in Early Access

Duo's Security Blog

Supporting OIDC allows us to protect more of the applications that our customers are adopting as we all move towards a mobile-first world and integrate stronger and modern authentication methods (e.g. Organizations that adopt and developers that build third-party OIDC apps want to enable users (B2C, B2B) single sign-on access to them.

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ChatGPT at work: how chatbots help employees, but threaten business

SecureList

Use a VPN sometimes there are empty hides without accounts. On the user side: two-factor authentication and chat history Among the privacy settings available to the user, we were primarily interested in two questions: Does the service save user-chatbot conversations directly in the account?