Posted on 01 May 2014 by
Two-factor authentication can prevent unauthorized access and credential leakage by ensuring that only a validated user is given system access.
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Open source security has been high on the news agenda in recent weeks, after the Heartbleed vulnerability found in the OpenSSL protocol called into question the safety of millions of websites from across the web in early April. While the fallout from this vulnerability may not appear to be as great as many predicted, the […]
Posted on 20 February 2014 by
Here’s a familiar scenario: I hear about a great website/service that interests me. It’s free, but I have to create an account to use the service. I’m not sure I’m going to keep using the service, so I hesitate to set up an account. Then I notice that I can login using my LinkedIn profile, […]
Posted on 04 February 2014 by
As Facebook turned ten years old today, it occurred to me that one out of every six people on the planet now has a Facebook profile. Facebook is now reported to have more than 1.2 billion users out of the world’s 7.2 billion people. This achievement is stunning, particularly when one considers that this ‘social […]
Posted on 26 April 2013 by
xkcd’s 1200th cartoon, published last week, was another brilliantly satirical look on the way most of us approach security on our laptop: It reminded me of Mel Gibson’s immortal line in the film, Braveheart: “They may take our lives, but they will never take our freedom.” Freedom was the most important thing to the Scots, […]
Posted on 21 March 2013 by
This post explores mobile endpoint security, context-based authentication, and the other strong authentication trends revealed by Gartner’s 2013 Magic Quadrant for User Authentication report.
