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S&R Forum 2021: Passwordless Authentication Adoption Is Gaining Momentum

Forrester IT

Passwordless authentication, in the form of inherence factors (e.g., location, user behavior), is an emerging authentication technology that will protect organizations from brute force attacks, credential stuffing, phishing, and social engineering tactics. fingerprint, facial) or in the form of possession factors (e.g.,

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GitHub Discovers Authentication Issue

SecureWorld News

GitHub announced a security update due to a bug causing issues with the authentication of sessions. On March 2, GitHub received an external report of anomalous behavior for their authenticated GitHub.com user session. This would give them the valid and authenticated session cookie for another user.

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Why Multi-Factor Authentication is Key to Modern Cybersecurity

CIO Business Intelligence

According to recent data from the Identity Theft Resource Center , there was a 14% increase in data breaches and compromises in the first quarter of 2022 compared to 2021. One of the best ways to ensure security? Multi-factor authentication, or MFA. IT Leadership, Security million to $4.24

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Twitter now lets you set a security key as your only two-factor authentication method 

The Verge

In March, Twitter said it would soon let you use a security key as your only two-factor authentication method, and on Wednesday, it announced that feature was live on both mobile and web. Being able to use a security key as one of your two-factor authentication methods isn’t new, but now you can make it the only one, if you want to.

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Architecting Identity: Five Essential Elements of a Modern Customer Authentication Service

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2021, the Federal Trade Commission [1] received 2.8 Traditional IAM, however, was built to manage internal employees, which means that the organization has control over connecting users to their real identities, birthright provisioning and device security. 5 Essential modern customer authentication elements that FIDO enables.

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Google account hacks dropped by half after pushing two-step authentication by default

The Verge

Nudging users toward security works. That’s the top-line finding four months into Google’s initiative to enroll users in two-factor authentication by default, detailed in a blog post to coincide with Safer Internet Day on February 8th. Twitter, which rolled out two-factor authentication in 2013, revealed in 2020 that only 2.3

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Take Action: Hospital Future Act (KHZG) & Multi-Factor Authentication Can Help Boost Your IT Security

HID Global

Take Action: Hospital Future Act (KHZG) & Multi-Factor Authentication Can Help Boost Your IT Security. Mon, 10/18/2021 - 11:42. mmajchrzak.