The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

If there ever was such a thing as a cybersecurity silver bullet it would do one thing really well: eliminate passwords. Threat actors have proven to be endlessly clever at abusing and misusing passwords. So what’s stopping us from getting rid of passwords altogether? Passwords may have been very effective securing Roman roads.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. “voice phishing” a.k.a. “vishing”). .

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 7, 2021

Password-based app access: convenient but risky. The other widely used convention by enterprises is to allow employees to login directly to cloud-based applications such as, (but not limited to) Office365, Slack, Agile, with passwords. Cloud-based access management and authentication. IAM innovations for cloud-based remote access.

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