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What Is Mutual Authentication?

Heimadal Security

Mutual authentication, also known as two-way authentication or website-to-user authentication, is a security mechanism that requires the two sides of a communications channel to authenticate each other’s identities (instead of just one side verifying the other) before moving forward with secure communications.

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mTLS Everywhere in Kubernetes: Not Just Entry and Exit

Security Boulevard

To prevent security incidents from happening in the first place, Kubernetes documentation mentions that “TLS should be enabled for every component that supports it to prevent traffic sniffing, verify the identity of the server, and (for mutual TLS) verify the identity of the client.”. But that is a topic for another blog.).

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Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. What’s driving the security of IoT?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. What’s driving the security of IoT? The same rings true for encryption and authentication. Thu, 03/11/2021 - 07:39. The Urgency for Security in a Connected World. It’s a complex challenge that we’re only just beginning to address. Device Security is Hard. They have design constraints.

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Coyote: A multi-stage banking Trojan abusing the Squirrel installer

SecureList

What caught our attention was the sophisticated infection chain that makes use of various advanced technologies, setting it apart from known banking Trojan infections. The developers of banking Trojan malware are constantly looking for inventive ways to distribute theirs implants and infect victims.

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Handling Criticism & The Cost of Call Out Culture in Cyber

Jane Frankland

Given the nature of what is considered a highly emotive topic, I want to keep a dialogue going, remove as much fear as possible when posting comments so we can become more aware, educated, and ultimately evolve together. Doing the latter is what trips us up and holds us back. . So, let’s have deep reverence for others from the outset.

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Securing Containers and Multi-Cloud Operations

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Knowing who and what can be trusted is a constant struggle, as malicious code, untrusted connections, and misconfiguration all lead to one thing – more risk. Two critical functions that make this possible are signature enforcement and trust authentication, both of which can be accomplished through the use of X.509 509 certificates.

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Another NFT explainer, with a bonus look at the data security implications

Webroot

What Bitcoin was to 2011, NFTs are to 2021.”. Non- what token? That’s what the “non-fungible” in non-fungible token means: there’s only one, and it’s completely unique. A distributed group of devices does the work to vouch for the authenticity of the token the same way it does for a bitcoin.