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MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION YOU CAN COUNT ON

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More than 25,000 organizations worldwide trust RSA SecurID® Access to provide a convenient, secure multi-factor authentication experience for their users. And now RSA SecurID Access is honored to have won the SC Magazine 2017 Trust Award for best multi-factor authentication solution – two years in a row. RSA SecurID Access multi-factor identity solution had to…

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Multifactor Authentication – A key component of the STOP. THINK. CONNECT.™ Initiative

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Too often security experts and security companies focus on the business to business (B2B) or business to government markets (B2G).  STOP. THINK. CONNECT.™ is the global online safety awareness campaign to help all digital citizens stay safer and more secure online addressing the consumer. Last month, the White House and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) launched “Lock Down Your Login,” a STOP. THINK. CONNECT.™ Initiative.  “We were basically approached by… Read more

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ICYMI: Microsoft Releases New Authenticator Apps for iOS and Android; Windows App to Follow

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Microsoft has made their new Microsoft Authenticator App available to users on iOS and Android now to support Multi-Factor Authentication for accounts from Microsoft and other services.

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Doing 2FA Correctly Requires More Than 2 Factors

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Two Factor Authentication (or 2FA) has been in the news a lot recently. There was the kerfuffle over NIST putting into their update of 800-63 that SMS-based 2FA is insufficiently secure and should be deprecated (something most security experts agree on). That update (still in draft) came too late for the Social Security Administration (SSA),…

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Microsoft Announces Upcoming Release of New Authenticator App

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Microsoft has revealed that their new authentication app will be released on Aug. 15 and will be available to all mobile app stores at that time. This new updated version will be compatible with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Accounts and other accoun… Continue reading Microsoft Announces Upcoming Release of New Authenticator App→

Microsoft Announces Upcoming Release of New Authenticator App

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Microsoft has revealed that their new authentication app will be released on Aug. 15 and will be available to all mobile app stores at that time. This new updated version will be compatible with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Accounts and other accoun… Continue reading Microsoft Announces Upcoming Release of New Authenticator App→

Azue AD – Skipping Multi-Factor Authentication on Trusted Devices

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A new feature on Azure Active Directory allows your users to validate their identify credentials against a trusted device used as a MFA element. This eliminates the need to use MFA on that trusted device against those credentials.

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