Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
It looks like I cannot get away from articles about passwords, which is not really a bad thing as passwords are still fundamental to everyone’s cyber security. I often read in the cyber security technical press that cyber attacks on even the biggest organisations start with the compromise of a …
…do you get it checked? It may seem a strange thing to think about, surely the programmers know how to produce secure code? But recent research has shown that even the biggest organisations have coders who continuously leave valuable credentials embedded in their public facing apps. These transgressions often arise …
I have published another part in my Back-to-Basics MFA Mini-series over on CyberAwake. What’s Wrong with MFA – CyberAwake
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 …
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 …
