Two-factor authentication

It has been a long established conceit that two actor authentication is essential for secure remote access scenarios. Anyone who has accessed private networks from the internet is familiar with the concept in one form or another. Whether the additional factors include Smart Badges, Security Tokens, Soft Certificates (encrypted code downloaded to a device to identify it as genuine), or a combination of the above, using two factor authentication has become a familiar and even expected part of our…

of multi-factor authentication (MFM) helps guarantee that a user is who they claim to be (Rouse, n.d.). The more factors used to determine a user’s true identity gives a greater trust of authenticity (Rouse, n.d.). In this case with Padma Santhanam, if the company had been using milti-factor authentication, he would not have even been able to just give her password and ID to another user and compromises the entire Linen Planet network. With milti-factor authentication, each added factor…

Ten Online Security Mistakes Seniors Make Seniors, in general, are trusting souls and don’t understand the dangers online. There are so many cyber thieves online searching and lurking, waiting for their next trusting victim to make a mistake. Each day at least 1 million cyber-attacks are executed, and the number is growing. It’s our job to keep our seniors informed and protected from all dangers, including the internet. Here are 10 tips on how to explain to seniors they are vulnerable to…

in length. Running Head: Venmo Privacy Concerns Page 2 Jane went to a farmers market with her friend Aska. When Jane went to buy something she realized she didn’t have any cash and all the stands only accepted cash. Aska said she had cash and showed Jane a cool new app she had called Venmo where she could quickly and easily send money to her friends from her phone. Jane installed the app in a couple of steps and was able to reimburse Aska for the items she bought for her. This is a typical…

So what can you do to be safe on the Internet? Cormier states that there is many things to do to be safe. One of them is to add a Dual/Multi-factor authentication too your accounts. “The most used Dual Factor authentication choice you see is the text message. For your account, it will ask you for your password, and then after your password, it would send you a text message to a phone number that you already setup on the site. You…

October is the designated "National Cybersecurity Awareness Month," in the United States and Canada, to educate and engage the community, from government agencies, private enterprise to external audiences, about the need to protect against emerging cyber threats. Today, we need to use Internet more than ever, to do everything from shopping, banking, to socializing, and in this interconnected world, we are constantly sharing sensitive information, which cyber criminals are always on the lookout…

Identify strategies to control and monitor each event to mitigate risk and minimize exposure Identify at least two types of security events and baseline anomalies that might indicate suspicious activity. One type of a security event that might indicate supicious activity is an authentication failures found in audit logs. Audit logs contain a high volume of events so particular attention on which events that should be specifically tracked and managed require consideration. An audit log can…

[DOCUMENT TITLE] [Document subtitle] Table of Content Abstract Information technology has taken a further step in the fundamental development in the banking system. Over the years there has been high increase in the use of internet and mobile banking. As a new way of performing banking transaction through a distribution channels. The development and increase in the information technology on the banking system has made operations and service for financial institution…

Ives, B., Walsh, K. R., & Schneider, H. (2004). The domino effect of password reuse. Communications Of The ACM, 47(4), 75-78. doi:10.1145/975817.975820 This is a brief cautionary article on the dangers of reusing a password across multiple applications. The authors give several examples of security breaches, but do not do a good job of illustrating that those security breaches were the direct or indirect result of a password re-use. Indeed, some of the incidents were a clear case of…

When Life Gives HOPE! Everyone who has their dream has found their hope from factors they felt. Junior, a boy in The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian had experienced several factor shaping worldviews, but in the end even though some of his Spokane Tribe resented him for leaving, and he lost some people he truly cared about, he was about to find hope through the love and struggles he had come upon. Family support, race, education and friendship can contribute whether or not people can…