Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is a security tool used by various organizations to protect user credentials, or the username and password. As a first step, organizations need to modernize their authentication, moving away from RADIUS or LDAP protocols and moving towards SAML.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 1, 2023

The Rise of AI Social Engineering Scams IdentityIQ In today’s digital age, social engineering scams have become an increasingly prevalent threat. Social engineering scams leverage psychological manipulation to deceive individuals and exploit the victims’ trust. This was a 3% increase compared to the previous year.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2022

Seeing the flaws continue year after year, the industry began linking authentication of valid software components to the underlying hardware, or the “root of trust”. This approach allows for compromised software to be identified during the authentication process.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The ETP app is capable of grabbing a range of ETP events—including threat, AUP (Acceptable User Policy), DNS activity, network traffic, and proxy traffic events—and feeding them into the robust USM Anywhere correlation engine for threat detection and enrichment. Voice of the vendor.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Organizations should likewise leverage GenAI to better detect AI-enhanced threats and counter the attack volumes that we expect to see in 2024. John Gunn , CEO, Token Gunn The carnage from 2023 reveals that legacy mutifactor authentication was the most frequent point of failure. For 2024, it will take a village!

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 19, 2023

While multi-factor authentication (MFA) generally protects against common methods of gaining unauthorized account access, not all multi-factor authentication methods can defend against sophisticated attacks. Authentication establishes confidence that the claimant has possession of one or more authenticators bound to the credential.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In the future, quantum computing has the potential to contribute to finance, military intelligence, pharmaceutical development, aerospace engineering, nuclear power, 3D printing, and so much more. Implement managed threat detection. What are the security risks?

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

If you are not consuming Duo logs via your SIEM platform, then you are missing out on a critical part of your users’ authentication telemetry that can help ensure their access to sensitive information is protected from threat actors. The ‘authevents.log’ contains both primary (LDAP/RADIUS) and secondary (Duo) authentication events.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Security lockout in Duo Trust Monitor and unenrolled user lockout enable just that in the authentication security realm. Trust Monitor Lockout Duo Trust Monitor is a Duo threat detection feature focused on surfacing valuable and actionable security events to Duo administrators in the admin console.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 15, 2021

By deploying basic tools such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) to verify user credentials, companies can avoid these disruptive and expensive ransomware attacks. 2) An attack against a company’s engineering organization to disrupt service delivery to its customers. We’d love to hear what you think.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 21, 2024

This creates a lot of problems for your admins, analysts and help desk teams, as they’ll have to dedicate time to address testing and configuring new product technical prerequisites, access management policies, and new authentication configurations. Decreased security Identity is the only perimeter left, and it’s a complex problem.

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Duo's Security Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

We’re excited to announce early access release of the Verified Duo Push, which will increase the security of our push-based multi-factor authentication (MFA) solution. With modern phishing-resistant authentication methods, we need to ensure that organizations continue to have the best security around push-based MFA.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 25, 2024

Following research released by Salt labs that uncovered critical vulnerabilities in the world's most popular authorization mechanism, Salt has released a multi-layered protection package to detect attempts to exploit OAuth and proactively fix the vulnerabilities.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

This also creates a lot of problems for your admins, analysts and help desk teams, as they’ll have to dedicate time to address testing and configuring new product technical prerequisites, access management policies, and new authentication configurations. Decreased security Identity is the only perimeter left, and it’s a complex problem.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 13, 2022

This article is part of a series in which we will explore several features, principles, and the building blocks of a security detection engine within an extended detection and response (XDR) solution. For example: IMPACT : An SSH server which supports password authentication is susceptible to brute-forcing attacks.

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Cisco Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The attacker can then use this passphrase to de-authenticate the original client and connect with the access point in its place. Advanced Security for Advanced Threats. At this point, aWIPS identifies the de-authentication attack and creates an alert so IT and the network can take action. De-authentication attacks.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This year's report highlighted several trends, including the need for identity threat detection and response (ITDR) to protect against breaches caused by credential misuse, which now represent 40% of all breaches. AI-driven access and governance for identity threat detection and response (ITDR).

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

Data Security & Threat Detection Framework The data security and threat detection framework serves as the foundation for data protection plans, protecting intellectual property, customer data, and employee information. Is multi-factor authentication established, and are staff instructed on how to use it?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

Spear phishing is a highly effective technique as it uses personalization, mind manipulation, and social engineering to exploit human vulnerabilities. Using Social Engineering Methods Social engineering involves the manipulation of people’s psychology so that they respond in a specific way.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 16, 2024

This panoramic view can then be leveraged by Duo to inform enforcement points, perform Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) , and proactively harden your Identity and Access Management (IAM) posture. The advantages are clear and twofold.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This challenge aligns with risks such as Broken Authentication (OWASP API2) and Broken Function Level Authorization (OWASP API5), where weak authentication mechanisms or flawed access controls can result in unauthorized access. Implementing multi-factor authentication, security software, and regular training are essential measures.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 19, 2023

It offers real-time API discovery and threat prevention across your entire portfolio, regardless of the protocol, in multi-cloud and cloud-native environments. We analyzed the API security market to arrive at this list of the top API security tools, followed some considerations for potential buyers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 15, 2022

Without proper functions, security testing, authentication checks, and input validation, APIs can become a perfect target. For example, Pelton, a fitness company exposed three million customer data due to a flawed API, which allows access to a private account without proper authentication. API Security Breaches are Piling Up.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 20, 2021

GreatHorn’s fact-based policy engine leverages artificial intelligence, data science, machine learning, and community threat intelligence to identify current and emerging risk. GreatHorn safeguards cloud email from advanced threats, (e.g., Through its proactive threat detection engine, end-user.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Despite all the advances in cybersecurity, email remains the starting point for the vast majority of cyberattacks, as phishing, malware and social engineering remain effective attack techniques. As some of these solutions are pretty low-cost, they potentially offer high ROI considering the enormity of the email threat problem.

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Cytelligence

MAY 24, 2023

Here are seven best practices for cybersecurity in small businesses: Employee Education and Training: Provide cybersecurity awareness training to your employees, teaching them about common threats such as phishing emails, social engineering, and the importance of strong passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2023

Back doors are vulnerabilities within a computer program that allow users to access the program without following the predetermined guidelines for entry (namely, credentials and any additional authentication). Use multifactor authentication MFA technologies help minimize the chance that an attacker can log in using valid credentials.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2022

Also notable: the compromised user was a customer support engineer from a contracted third party (Sitel). Through a combination of technical and procedural solutions, most of the issues caused by insider threats can be mitigated: Defense Against Phishing. Use token authentication through an authenticator application.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

What security attributes are associated with them, such as authentication type, rate-limiting, etc.?) Unlike typical API security solutions that focus primarily on detection and mitigation of threats, Salt's platform introduces the first-ever engine dedicated to API posture governance. Register here.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 21, 2022

Enhanced Security Visibility and Threat Intelligence When Duo launched Trust Monitor in November 2020, the idea was to highlight suspicious login activity and help SecOps investigate potentially compromised accounts.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Regardless of the user authentication mechanism used, privileges must be built into the operating system, file system, applications, databases, hypervisors, cloud platforms, network infrastructure. Social engineering. In turn, this factor serves as an obstacle to the use of multifactor authentication. Authentication without PAM.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2022

The AlienApp for Cisco Secure Endpoint enables you to automate threat detection and response activities between USM Anywhere and Cisco Secure Endpoint. Data collected from Umbrella can then be routed to Sumo’s Cloud SIEM, where it is then automatically normalized and applied to our rule’s engine. Happy integrating!

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

Lapsus$ has used tactics such as social engineering, SIM swapping, and paying employees and business partners for access to credentials and multifactor authentication approvals. The threat actor compromised information from up to 366 Okta customers. Reset 2-factor authentication for Okta superadmins.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Versa Unified SASE provides carrier-grade performance and a host of deployment options expected by experienced network engineers and security professionals.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 11, 2021

Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) has proven to be a godsend to the cyber security community and both Matt and Wendy raved about the technology during their chat. Matt mentioned the effectiveness of multifactor authentication, calling it a relatively simple addition to a business security that can render multiple hacking methods less potent.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

New BotenaGo samples were found with very low AV detection (3/60 engines). 2830690: ETPRO EXPLOIT GPON Authentication Bypass Attempt (CVE-2018-10561). 2027063: ET EXPLOIT Outbound GPON Authentication Bypass Attempt (CVE-2018-10561). 2830690: ETPRO EXPLOIT GPON Authentication Bypass Attempt (CVE-2018-10561).

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2022

Other components of a good cybersecurity posture include two-factor authentication and continuous cybersecurity monitoring. Collecting security events from across your IT infrastructure, network, and applications, and reporting threats on a constant basis, are integral to enterprise network safety. Fiction: Strong passwords are enough.

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