On May 10, 2022 I posted on the NetSPI Executive Blog.
What is the typical authentication setup for personal online accounts? The username and password.
For too long, we have depended on this legacy form of authentication to protect our personal data. As more people rely on the internet to manage their most important tasks — online banking, applying for loans, running their businesses, communicating with family, you name it — many companies and services still opt for the typical username and password authentication method, often with multi-factor authentication as an option, but not a requirement.
To combat the sophisticated attacks of hackers today, multi-factor authentication methods must be considered the bare minimum. [For those unfamiliar with the concept, multi-factor authentication, or MFA, requires the user to validate their identity in two or more ways to gain access to an account, resource, application, etc.] Then, starting on that foundation, security leaders must consider what other identity and access management practices can they implement to better protect their customers?
Read the full post here: https://www.netspi.com/blog/executive/security-industry-trends/multi-factor-authentication-the-bare-minimum-of-iam/
