NetSpi Technical

JANUARY 18, 2024

While TOTP was once an advancement in authorizing secure access, today it’s become a dated security measure that allows persistent threat actors to find exploitable gaps. In this article we’ll explore security risks of TOTP and an alternative 2FA method to increase security. Would the app still let me authenticate?

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 30, 2021

The password might even outlast the corporate data center. What’s Coming I’m excited to share that Cisco is announcing Duo’s passwordless authentication. It replaces the password with security keys and platform biometrics such as Apple FaceID and TouchID, and Windows Hello. Workforces are ready for passwordless authentication.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

One such report: The latest Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) Notifiable data breaches report for July through December of last year. These social engineering techniques tricked employees into revealing their login credentials, which allowed attackers to access additional systems and data.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 15, 2021

Security leaders the world over tend to share many, if not all, of the same issues in their respective organizations. From having to deal with patching, firewalls, network zone segmentation of accumulated security debt. That includes the data that the organization collects and utilizes in the course of their business activities.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Users have left the building, and it's up to your security team to make sure they are protected on any device, wherever and whenever they choose to work. Remote workers need secure access to their applications and critical resources, whether they reside in the public cloud or on-premises behind perimeter security.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“It took nearly 11 months (328 days) to identity and contain data breaches resulting from stolen or compromised credentials.” – IBM’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2023 I recently came across a 2012 article from CSO Online , and realized that it has been more than 11 years since the phrase “Identity is the new perimeter” was coined!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Top Five Reasons for Choosing FIDO2 Devices for Enterprise Authentication. Strong yet convenient authentication has become a paramount factor of a robust security posture for modern, digital, cloud-first enterprises. Why do you need passwordless authentication? Thu, 09/08/2022 - 06:01.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 1, 2021

Part of our Administrator's Guide to Passwordless blog series See the video at the blog post. The most critical difference is the context in which it is used for authentication in WebAuthn. By enforcing local authentication via PIN, we effectively force remote attackers to “walk” to each account they want to hack.

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Google Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

This trust is paramount to the Android Security team. The team focuses on ensuring that Android devices respect the privacy and sensitivity of user data. After all, the lockscreen ensures that only the intended user(s) of a device can access their private data. We will delve into Android biometrics in the next section.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

Today: Christi Volny, a senior software engineer for the Duo Single Sign-On platform at Cisco Secure, discusses the breaking point for passwords, the tipping point for passwordless, and she trusts the math. So it’s relying on usually math, hard enough math that’s going to prevent a machine from being able to guess this guess the solution.

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Elie

DECEMBER 20, 2018

This post looks at two-factor authentication adoption in the wild, highlights the disparity of support between the various categories of websites, and illuminates how fragmented the two factor ecosystem is in terms of standard adoption. reuse of passwords found in data breaches and phishing attacks. Methodology. dongleauth.info.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In today's digital landscape, organizations seek to bolster security and mitigate phishing due to the growing cyber security threats. Cisco Duo has partnered with KnowBe4, a leader in security awareness training, by integrating our Single Sign-On (SSO) product with the KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training platform.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In a matter of a few days, security professionals from near and far will descend upon downtown San Francisco to attend the world’s premier cybersecurity event– RSA Conference 2020. For years, we’ve been discussing how digital transformation will impact data security. A post digital transformation world. Who do you trust?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 7, 2021

This blog will introduce access management evaluation criteria guidelines and discuss what features you should look for and what vendors to consider for your next employee access management solution. They need to maintain an easy user management access for cloud-based applications and services, without compromising on security.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report advises organizations to deploy multifactor authentication throughout all systems and discourage password reuse. And yet, according to Norton , data breaches for 2019 included 3,800 publicly disclosed breaches, 4.1 authentication technologies.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 2, 2024

Amidst the ever-evolving realm of enterprise security, a new year unfolds, introducing a dynamic array of emerging threats. The absence of encryption allows attackers to eliminate development cycles and decryption support and quietly exfiltrate data before making ransom demands. A more mature third party risk management program.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

One challenge for IT departments across organizations has remained the same for decades: “How do we balance security and productivity while allowing our employees access to corporate resources?” At the same time, security professionals want to ensure that sufficient access security controls are in place to safeguard corporate data.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 17, 2021

SECURITY NEWS. Its blog, payments collection site, and its CDN have gone offline. A security researcher has found a collection of major vulnerabilities in WiFi that affect most products that are in use today. Microsoft has released a free tool called Counterfit for testing AI-based security systems. More Analysis.

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