ASD tells Australia how to adopt DMARC to fight email spoofing attacks
ASD explains how and why organizations should implement DMARC.
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News about authentication
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Workers wise up to phishing, but you still need 2FA for business accounts
Train your staff to catch phishing email, but you also have to implement two-factor authentication.
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Microsoft kicks off public preview of Azure AD password muffler
Microsoft buries the password a little bit more and brings it to Windows 10 201H1 testers.
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Password Less Future – Is it really an option?
Passwords are an archaic and painful way for users to securely authenticate themselves. They are one of the biggest issues that security teams need to deal with in an enterprise, they are constantly stolen or cracked due to user poor security practices.
Craig Ford | 27 May | Read more
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Microsoft Azure authentication services stumble again after last week's 14hr outage
Microsoft's Azure cloud authentication services are causing problems for customers for the second week in a row.
Tutorials about authentication
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Get two-factor authentication on the desktop with Authy
One of the best security precautions you can take to protect your online accounts is to enable two-factor authentication on any service that supports it. This requires you to enter a short, one-time code to access your online accounts after you've entered your password.
Features about authentication
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What Are the Most Overrated Security Technologies?
The security community has grown to depend on some basic technologies in the fight against cyber thieves, such as antivirus software and firewalls. But are practitioners clinging to tools that outlived their usefulness long ago? Were those tools ever really useful to begin with?
Bill Brenner | 25 Mar | Read more
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Biometrics: What, Where and Why
Biometrics encompasses a variety of methods for ensuring identity based on physical or behavioral traits. Conventional identifying traits include fingerprints, face topology, iris structure, hand geometry, vein structure, voice, signature and keystroke recognition. Emerging technologies analyze characteristics such as gait, odor, and ear shape. Rather than being used in isolation, biometrics systems are increasingly becoming multimodal, an approach that serves both to increase security and overcome failure-to-enroll problems.
Mary Brandel | 25 Mar | Read more
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Using Biometric Access Systems: Dos and Don'ts
Considering a biometric access system? Experts offer practical advice in these dos and don'ts.
Mary Brandel | 18 Mar | Read more
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Password Seeks Partner For Long-Term, Secure Relationship
Passwords have been standing guard over our computer user accounts seemingly forever; for a long while, and for most purposes, they could go it alone.
Bill Nagel | 05 May | Read more
Whitepapers about authentication
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George Weston Optimizes Office 365 Deployment
When Canadian food distributor George Weston Limited moved to Microsoft Office 365, it chose F5 Application Delivery Controllers to centrally manage user traffic to its Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) servers.
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Authentication Solutions Buyer's Guide
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Multi-Factor Authentication; Current Usage and Trends
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Context Based Authentication