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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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10 essential tips for bolstering cloud security in your business

CIO Business Intelligence

This makes it more critical than ever to adopt strong security measures to protect sensitive information and infrastructure. However, while cloud computing offers benefits like improved efficiency, scalability, and accessibility, it poses new security challenges.

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Passwordless MFA for Customers: How to Fortify Security without Introducing Friction

CIO Business Intelligence

Password-based authentication is likely the most widely used method of authenticating users to online services. Password-based authentication is used because it is easy to understand and implement. However, this comes at the cost of weak security and a poor user experience. Password-based authentication isn’t working.

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Apple's New Advanced Security Features Protect Your Sensitive Data

SecureWorld News

Apple has announced several new advanced security features that will provide users with important tools to protect their most sensitive data and communications. These features include iMessage Contact Key Verification, Security Keys for Apple ID, and Advanced Data Protection for iCloud.

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Security for Big Data Designs: Examining best practices with security architect Eddie Garcia

CTOvision

The breakfast event focused on security for big data designs and featured the highly regarded security architect Eddie Garcia. Eddie Garcia is chief security architect at Cloudera , a leader in enterprise analytic data management. Combined with Cloudera technology, it becomes a secure and powerful enterprise architecture.

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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. Data due diligence Generative AI especially has particular implications for data security, Mann says.

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Cloudflare says it’s time to end CAPTCHA ‘madness’, launches new security key-based replacement

The Verge

Right now, it only supports a limited number of USB security keys like YubiKeys, but you can test Cloudflare’s system for yourself right now on the company’s website. The security module is capable of proving it owns such a secret without revealing it. I tried it out, and it worked great.

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