In today’s digital age, personal data is never safe. Cybercriminals are looking for every opportunity possible to acquire your user data. Ongoing data breaches continue to expose usernames, passwords, ...

Microsoft this week announced a preview of "Authentication Strength," a new control for organizations using the Azure Active Directory Conditional Access service. Authentication Strength lets IT pros ...

Explore various types of authentication methods including MFA, SSO, and Biometrics. Learn how to secure enterprise apps and prevent data breach.

Multifactor authentication (MFA) often features in experts’ lists of low-hanging fruit cybersecurity improvements that agencies could adopt to make themselves harder targets. MFA recognizes that ...

A deep dive into implicit identity authentication methods for software development, covering oauth 2.0 flows, security risks, and modern alternatives for single-page applications.

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Human relationships rely on trust, which is why the true history of authentication extends back long before the first written documents referencing it. I suspect that as early as humans formed tribes, ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Two-factor authentication is a security process that requires users to provide two distinct authentication factors to access an account. By introducing a second layer ...

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a method that allows users to gain access to their accounts and devices by presenting two separate and distinct forms of identification. A common form of second ...

As promised last issue, I’m re-printing a glossary of strong/second factor authentication methods that TriCipher provided me along with the results of its sponsored survey on people’s perceptions of ...