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Passkeys: Using FIDO for Secure and Easy Authentication

Phil Windley

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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Top 7 MFA Bypass Techniques and How to Defend Against Them

SecureWorld News

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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What you need to know about Okta’s security breach

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Juniper expands AI management features for wired, wireless networks

Network World

The platform works by gathering telemetry and user state data from Juniper’s routers, switches, access points, firewalls, and applications to offer actionable insights and automated workflows for proactive issue detection and resolution, Juniper says.

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10 essential tips for bolstering cloud security in your business

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. This would be why I hate it when companies force me to use SMS for two-factor authentication—at least let me use a one-time passcode or something. Rory McCune explains Kubernetes authentication. Falco has graduated within the CNCF.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO Business Intelligence

Fundamentals like security, cost control, identity management, container sprawl, data management, and hardware refreshes remain key strategic areas for CIOs to deal with. When you think about all the blocking and tackling a CIO needs to do for regular applications, that especially applies to AI.”

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