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3 Must-Know Cybersecurity Tips for Online Business

Chicago CyberSecurity Training

Use Strong Passwords and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): One of the most important steps to securing your business is to use strong pass phrases for your accounts. Additionally, enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) when possible. Backup Your Data: Data loss can be catastrophic for any business, especially an online business.

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Passkeys vs. Passwords: The State of Passkeys on Cloud Platforms

Duo's Security Blog

Be sure to tune into our webinar, The State of Passkeys in the Enterprise , on September 7th at 9am PST | 12pm EST. Passkeys on Cloud Platforms Passkeys have growing support from significant vendors. Google Password Manager On Android, the Google Password Manager provides backup and syncs passkeys.

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What is Tier Zero?—?Part 1

Security Boulevard

It is the first in a series released after each episode of our webinar series called What is Tier Zero. There are exceptions, such as a Restricted Admin Mode RDP session established with Kerberos authentication, but we won’t elaborate on that here. This blog post was written together with Elad Shamir and Justin Kohler.

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To Cover or Not to Cover: The Cyber Liability Insurance Quandary Facing Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses

Duo's Security Blog

MFA is a necessity, not a luxury There is a good reason that nearly every cyber liability insurance carrier requires multi-factor authentication (MFA) and why, according to wholesale specialty insurance distributors CRC Group , clients without MFA risk non-renewal or a retention hike of 100% or more. What are you doing about backups?

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Passwords vs. Passkeys: The State of Passkeys on User Endpoints

Duo's Security Blog

In our recent passkey blog series , we’ve been unpacking the difference between new passkey technology and more conventional password security in light of some of the most critical authentication scenarios. They can also be used on other devices through QR code-based “hybrid” authentication.

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Ransomware Prevention, Detection, and Simulation

NetSpi Executives

Logins without multi-factor authentication. Hunt and destroy or encrypt backups hosted in local and cloud networks as well as virtual machine snapshots. Enable multi-factor authentication. Protect your backup systems. Does backup protect against ransomware? Test your ability to restore from backups.

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3 Essential Elements of an Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) Strategy

Security Boulevard

Prevention Prevention starts with some basic security hygiene of your IAM infrastructure, like ensuring that your users always use multi-factor authentication (MFA) for any systems that need passwords, go passwordless for all modern applications that can support it, and leverage continuous authorization to ensure IAM infrastructure security.