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Passwordless Authentication without Secrets!

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Passwordless Authentication without Secrets! divya Fri, 10/11/2024 - 08:54 As user expectations for secure and seamless access continue to grow, the 2024 Thales Consumer Digital Trust Index (DTI) research revealed that 65% of users feel frustrated with frequent password resets.

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MY TAKE: Businesses gravitate to ‘passwordless’ authentication — widespread consumer use up next

The Last Watchdog

Perhaps not coincidently, it comes at a time when enterprises have begun adopting passwordless authentication systems in mission-critical parts of their internal operations. Excising passwords as the security linchpin to digital services is long, long overdue. One bank in the U.S. Our brains just won’t do it.”.

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Why SMS two-factor authentication codes aren't safe and what to use instead

Zero Day

Those codes are supposed to serve as two-factor authentication to confirm our identity and prevent scammers from accessing our accounts through a password alone. The packets contained SMS messages with two-factor authentication codes that were received by individual users. Here's how it happened and why it's a problem.

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It’s Time for Banks to Release the Brakes and Accelerate Their Digital Transformation

Security Boulevard

Over the past year, like many industries, the financial sector has faced a range of both challenges and opportunities, leading to a decade’s worth of digital transformation in 12 short months. We have seen particular growth in interest from banks and financial services in deploying a cloud-based Zero Trust approach.

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FIRESIDE CHAT: U.S. banking regulators call out APIs as embodying an attack surface full of risk

The Last Watchdog

APIs have been a linchpin as far as accelerating digital transformation — but they’ve also exponentially expanded the attack surface of modern business networks. We discussed, in some detail, just how far the new rules go in requiring best practices for accessing and authenticating APIs.

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RSAC insights: Malware is now spreading via weaponized files circulating in data lakes, file shares

The Last Watchdog

Lots of innovation has come down the pike with respect to imbuing zero trust into two pillars of security operations: connectivity and authentication. Votiro’s new cloud services fit as a pillar of zero trust that is now getting more attention: directly protecting digital content in of itself. But that needs to change, he says. “It’s

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Signed, Secured, Delivered: Authenticating Digital Agreements in the Time of Web3

CyberSecurity Insiders

This is especially alarming for industries that conduct high-value transactions online, such as banking, healthcare, government, etc., Applicants must virtually verify their identity through ID Verification and Knowledge-based Authentication (KBA) and then execute the e-signature before being affixed by the notary.