As much as our digital ecosystem has advanced in recent years, some elements of the security world have been slower to change. For example, a shortage of well-trained cybersecurity professionals has ...

Underlying this shift toward passwordless authentication is a shift toward a zero-trust architecture, which many ...

As promised last issue, I’m re-printing a glossary of strong/second factor authentication methods that TriCipher provided me along with the results of its sponsored survey on people’s perceptions of ...

Microsoft this week announced a preview of "Authentication Strength," a new control for organizations using the Azure Active Directory Conditional Access service. Authentication Strength lets IT pros ...

Text message two-factor authentication sounds like a security upgrade. It feels official. It looks responsible. Yet it often stands as the flimsiest barrier between a criminal and everything stored in ...

As I’ve said before, passwords suck. So do made-up holidays, but World Password Day (which rolls around yearly on May 1) ...

Passwords. We use them every day. We love them and we hate them. We are constantly frustrated by them — coming up with, and remembering, the required string of ...

In today’s digital age, personal data is never safe. Cybercriminals are looking for every opportunity possible to acquire your user data. Ongoing data breaches continue to expose usernames, passwords, ...

Citing resistance to phishing and credential reuse, the agency recommends passkeys wherever supported and warns that ...

Twitter added last year the option for users to log in to its mobile app using a physical security key as a two-factor authentication method, but you had to have another authentication method enabled ...

In testimony to the U.S. Congress last year the Motor Equipment Manufacturers Association cited research estimating annual revenues lost to counterfeiting of components at $45 billion worldwide.