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 …
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 …
Cyber Security and a Piece of Paper
It all starts with a bit of paper… There has been a lot of coverage of the Conservative Government’s on and off plans for HS2 – this article is not about that, but how this whole debate started. It started with a photograph of discussion papers that should not have …
Is this really my last word on passwords?
I am not sure it will be, but I think it does round off my Passwords Mini-series for the time being. Back to Basics – Passwords Passwords – Back to Basics Back to Basics – The Password Part 2 Back to Basics – The Password Keyboard Walk Part 3 Back …
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