The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 23, 2019

Everybody needs two factor authentication, but just exactly what is it? As everyone in the CIO position knows, keeping the company’s systems and applications secure is a top priority and has a lot to do with the importance of information technology. Two Factor Authentication. So just exactly is two factor authentication.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 17, 2022

In my last column for CIO.com , I outlined some of the cybersecurity issues around user authentication for verification of consumer and business accounts. . FIDO as an industry initiative was set up a decade ago to standardize the need for strong authentication/password technologies. Well, yes, but there is more that tech pros can do.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

While protecting enterprise assets using identity and access management (IAM) is important, companies also need to address the applications their customers use. They may have a built-in user store supporting password authentication, for example. In response to cloud-based customer experiences, more focus has shifted to authentication.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 27, 2022

Multi-factor authentication, or MFA. Multi-factor authentication requires users to provide two or more pieces of evidence in order to gain access to a network, application, or system, and can dramatically decrease the likelihood of infiltration. One of the best ways to ensure security?

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2021

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. How did GitHub fix the issue?

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Phil Windley

MARCH 7, 2022

Summary: Authenticity and privacy are usually traded off against each other. At a recent Utah SSI Meetup , Sam Smith discussed the tradeoff between privacy, authenticity and confidentiality. Authenticity allows parties to a conversation to know to whom they are talking. The following diagram illustrates these tradeoffs.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A full-stack developer must program in HTML/CSS and JavaScript as well as be responsible for back-end development of sever-side processes for data storage and retrieval, business logic tasks, authentication, and integration with third-party APIs in programming languages such as Go,NET, Java, Rust, and Node.js.

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 28, 2023

Image credit ) What is embedded software development and why is it important for IoT-enabled applications Embedded software development plays a major role in the introduction of IoT-enabled applications. However, through IoT applications comes the challenge of integrating sensors into embedded software systems.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Zoom is adding support for two-factor authentication (2FA) to its desktop and mobile applications, giving users the option of adding an extra layer of security to their account beyond a standard password, the company has confirmed to The Verge. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Phil Windley

MARCH 27, 2023

Summary: Passkeys, the popular name for FIDO, are not only easy, they offer better protection against phishing than other forms of multi-factor authentication. She's a security expert and focused many of her remarks on the relative security of different multi-factor authentication (MFA) techniques, a topic I cover in my book as well.

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Forrester IT

JULY 14, 2022

Travelers alleges that ICS misrepresented its use of multifactor authentication (MFA) on its policy application, which should be sufficient legal […].

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Gizmodo

MARCH 22, 2022

Hacker group LAPSUS$ posted images on its Telegram channel overnight claiming it achieved administrator access to Okta, a user authentication and data management company. And if that’s true, it’s potentially bad for a number of large firms that use Okta services. Read more.

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Network World

MARCH 11, 2019

This complicates access requirements at a time when it’s more important than ever to enable accessibility while preventing unauthorized access to applications and data. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

OCTOBER 1, 2018

billion deal it made for network identity, authentication security company Duo. According to Cisco, Duo’s zero trust security model authorizes secure connections to all applications based on the trustworthiness of users and devices. Cisco said today it had closed the $2.35

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GeekWire

JULY 26, 2021

Customers use cases include age verification; fraud detection; application onboarding; biometrics; and more. Founded in 2001, AuthenticID provides “identity proofing” software to U.S. wireless carriers, banks, credit bureaus, and other large enterprise companies.

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TechEmpower - Information Technology

JULY 24, 2023

What are the key features in each major phase of your application? How quickly will we need to scale the application? Can you do a hybrid web/native application? Registration Do you plan to support Google Sign-In, Facebook Connect, or similar 3rd-party authentication? Location/Geography Is your application location-aware?

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 28, 2023

My new book Learning Digital Identity from O'Reilly Media covers many of the topics in this post such as multi-factor authentication, authorization and access control, and identity policy development in depth. User Authentication: Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Requiring users to provide multiple forms of verification (e.g.,

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Single Sign-On (SSO) is a technology that allows users to access multiple applications with a single set of login credentials. This can make it easier for users to log in to applications and can also help to improve security. Do you need support for multi-factor authentication (MFA)? Cost: SSO vendors can vary widely in price.

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Network World

JANUARY 11, 2017

A startup with a strong pedigree is trying to address the problem that businesses have keeping up with the ever-increasing options for authentication. Rakesh Loonkar. Rakesh Loonkar To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Galido

APRIL 6, 2020

Information Technology Blog - - Artificial Intelligence Applications and Succeeding with IAIDL - Information Technology Blog. The following are applications for artificial intelligence. Front- and middle-office AI applications offer the greatest cost savings opportunity across banks. Machine Learning.

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Network World

MARCH 16, 2017

Once a hacker gains access to one aspect of your digital life, he can easily reach across multiple applications and accounts, laying a path of destruction and heartache. Today’s mobile and digital experiences need authentication strategies that keep up with the constantly changing digital ecosystem, and simple passwords are not enough.

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Network World

MARCH 14, 2017

User authentication is one of the basic components of any cyber security program. Identifying an individual based on a username, password or other means helps companies ensure that the person is who he or she claims to be when accessing a system, application or network. That’s where continuous authentication comes in.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 5, 2023

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a fundamental component of best practices for account security. Traditionally, this approach to authentication delivers a unique code to a user's email or phone, which is then inputted following the account password. SMS-based MFA MFA via SMS (i.e., However, MFA via SMS is not without its issues.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 12, 2022

Applications have become a major part of our lives. With more applications being built every day, the need for robust Application Security Testing (AST) has never been greater. In this blog post, we'll cover the roles DAST and SAST play in Application Security Testing and discuss how fuzzing fits into it all.

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Network World

MAY 18, 2022

The increased deployment of core business applications in the cloud and the shift to remote work brought on by the pandemic have obliterated any notion of the traditional “corporate moat” style of security. Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) has emerged as the preferred approach to address today’s security challenges.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Insert another authentication step on top of these credentials and this gateway becomes harder to infiltrate. But once access is gained, how can the device or Web application be certain that the authenticated user is, in fact, the same person throughout the entire session? Usernames and passwords act as a gateway.

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Network World

JANUARY 27, 2017

Identifying or authenticating people based on how they type is not a new idea, but thanks to advances in artificial intelligence it can now be done with a very high level of accuracy, making it a viable replacement for other forms of biometrics.

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Tech Republic

JUNE 17, 2022

In this step-by-step guide, learn how to enable the backup feature within the two-factor authentication application Authy. The post How to back up your Authy app appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

ZTNA employs identity-based authentication to establish trust with entities trying to access the network and grants each authorized entity access only to the data and applications they require to accomplish their tasks. It also provides new tools for IT to control access to sensitive data by those entities that are deemed trusted.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2023

In today’s interconnected digital landscape, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are instrumental in ensuring seamless communication between software systems. WAAPs inspect incoming API requests, filtering out potentially harmful traffic based on predefined security rules to identify applications attacks (e.g. SQLi and RCE).

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 2, 2024

However, mounting evidence from cybersecurity researchers pointed to the data being authentic AT&T customer records. While AT&T claims no signs of a system breach, security experts are skeptical given the company's previous denials and the authenticity of the exposed customer records.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Use two factor authentication for every account: There is no such thing as a silver bullet in cyber defense, but this is one of the most important things you can do. If an account does not offer multi-factor authentication, consider closing it. Use a password manager (like Dashlane ): We all have too many passwords to remember.

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Network World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Problems can come from hackers gaining access to an application or database from the outside, through things like stealing credentials or exploiting weak authentication. Security is the state you achieve by dealing with all likely threats, and every threat has to be addressed in its own unique way.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Using posture control, organizations can limit access to applications on managed devices only. Access will be prohibited if the adversaries try to access the critical applications or servers from unmanaged devices. A DLP-like technology can be effective in preventing users from uploading files with sensitive data unknowingly.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) : Use an additional layer of authentication, such as a fingerprint or one-time code, to verify user identities. To ensure the security of your cloud applications, infrastructure, and operating systems, it’s important to schedule regular vulnerability scans and penetration tests.

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Network World

JANUARY 18, 2017

Oracle released its first batch of security patches this year, fixing 270 vulnerabilities, mostly in business-critical applications. Many of the flaws can be exploited remotely without authentication.

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Network World

OCTOBER 27, 2016

For many security professionals, passwords are the scourge of the authentication world, and their death can't come soon enough. This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices. Click here to subscribe. Passwords are too often stolen, shared, forgotten or simply too weak or obvious to be effective.

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