The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

If there ever was such a thing as a cybersecurity silver bullet it would do one thing really well: eliminate passwords. Threat actors have proven to be endlessly clever at abusing and misusing passwords. So what’s stopping us from getting rid of passwords altogether? Passwords may have been very effective securing Roman roads.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 30, 2022

Four and a half years ago now, I rolled out version 2 of HIBP's Pwned Passwords that implemented a really cool k-anonymity model courtesy of the brains at Cloudflare. Actually, the multiple problems, the first of which is that it's just way too fast for storing user passwords in an online system. is the middle one.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. Many employees passed the messages onto the security team and went back to business.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Massive amounts of data are constantly produced globally, shared and stored by a rapidly growing number of devices in an expanding cloud environment. Data is useless unless it can be accessed, so it must reside in a place that’s penetrable, but only by those who are authorized. Trusted access is the key to the digital kingdom.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 7, 2021

Password-based app access: convenient but risky. The other widely used convention by enterprises is to allow employees to login directly to cloud-based applications such as, (but not limited to) Office365, Slack, Agile, with passwords. Cloud-based access management and authentication. IAM innovations for cloud-based remote access.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 3, 2020

On April 1, 2020, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) released guidance for employers on how to implement teleworking (the “Guidance”) as well as best practices for their employees in this context (the “Best Practices”). Transmitting personal data in a secure way. Guidance for Employers.

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