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Everyone has data – Here’s how to use it defensively In contemporary decision-making, data rules supreme. Big data and data culture are just two indicators in the digital landscape that industries have seen over the past decade. The deep value placed on data, combined with our growing ability to collect and mine massive amounts of it, has catapulted it to …
Six Quick Actions You Can Bring To Your Next Meeting While IT managers and team leaders work on password policies and security defenses behind the scenes, it’s also important to be able to provide employees with user-friendly practices to enhance cyber security. Keeping password safety a common conversational topic that can help folks make good choices with their daily habits, …
Let’s Ask An Expert. What Should We All Know About Passwords in 2022? It’s 2022 and even in the past year, the digital landscape has changed substantially. With new cryptocurrencies, telehealth, and e-commerce changes popping up every minute around us, it can be a challenge for businesses to know how to keep up. So, we’ve taken the opportunity to ask …
Not Kidding Around While chalkboards have long seemed artifacts from classrooms of the past, you might be surprised just how dramatically classrooms have changed just within the last ten years. Tablets and Chromebooks have replaced many textbooks and paper hand-in systems, plagiarism and cheating are detected in new ways, and sometimes, the classroom is no longer a physical space–e-learning and …
The 2022 Experian Data Breach Industry report covers the impact of breaches over the past year and turns an eye towards the upcoming months as well, forecasting implications for the continued barrage of cyberattacks. The report covers trends in the digital landscape that have manifested due to natural disasters and gambling sites (leading to more phishing scams), as well as …
Password authentication isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. It’s part of our culture, users and employees are accustomed to it, and many systems depend on the “what you know” layer. Newer technologies like biometrics might work in certain situations, but they won’t replace passwords altogether anytime soon. In our series on password security, we’ve talked about some worrying trends, the myths …
As the impacts of the pandemic continue to ripple outwards, hackers are tapping into credential stuffing as an easy way to victimize both companies and individuals. The branching of events is easy to track with the rapid transition to remote work, e-commerce boom, and the millions of new online accounts for everything from grocery delivery to streaming services. The rapidity …
The education sector is a prime target for credential attacks and password reuse is rampant. So, we took some time to talk with one of our customers (a large private university) about how our solution has enabled them to shore up their defenses and reduce the risk from compromised credentials. Tell us about your situation. Higher education is similar to …
Data from the first quarter of 2021 showed an increased frequency of data breaches and compromised personal information. The annual report from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) indicates the number of individuals with some form of personal data leaked online increased by 546% from the last quarter of 2020 to the first of 2021. And no, that percentage is …
When planning an organization’s security architecture, there has commonly been a focus on traditional approaches like managing firewalls and ensuring systems are patched. While these are critical components of any organization’s best security practices, there have been several key areas of security planning that have been overlooked. One such area of planning is the issue of password hygiene and account …
