Microsoft is going to automatically deploy a policy for many of it’s customers that will make it mandatory for administrator users to use MFA. Microsoft will roll out MFA-enforcing policies for admin portal access (bleepingcomputer.com) Of course the admins could turn this policy off – but why would they? Watch …
We have done passwords, now let’s do MFA
Following on from the Back-to-Basics Password Primer mini-series – my latest article on CyberAwake is discussing the basics of multi-factor authentication (MFA): Back to Basics – MFA – CyberAwake In the next part I am going to discuss some of the weaknesses in MFA as a cyber security tool. Back …
Where Do You Keep Your Passwords?
I was wondering what to write about this week for “The Wednesday Bit” – I knew it was not going to be passwords. I have had enough of that! I got started on a spin-off topic from an IT and Cyber Security Audit I am running at the moment about …
Back to Basics – A Password Primer
It is difficult to avoid a password when it comes to managing your cyber security, but they are often overlooked as being “something easy everyone copes with” or the policies relating to them do not add to the cyber security but detract from it. This is why I wrote a …
Password Fatigue – Back to Basics
I have been writing a mini-series about passwords over on CyberAwake and each time I think I have finished, something in the news causes me to write another chapter, which brings me to password fatigue. Just yesterday I was in a Teams meeting with a new client, where they were …
