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The education sector continues to face a growing complex of cybersecurity threats. While the education industry has been under high attack for several years, the forced move to remote and online learning as a response to the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020 has blown the gates off. At this point, 87% of educational institutions have experienced at least one successful cyberattack, and 36% of...

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Tags: #cyberattacks, #cybersecurity, Education, higher education, #defeatcyberattacks

Even though companies worldwide are struggling to protect systems and data from incessant waves of cyberattacks—there seems to be no end in sight. With the release of the FBI’s Internet Crime Report 2020, it is apparent that cybercriminals took advantage of the impact of the pandemic while many of us were distracted with trying to figure out our “new normal” and the technology we require to...

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Tags: Authentication Security, best practices, #cybersecurity, MFA, Multi-Factor Authentication, User Authentication, #userauthentication, Biometrics, IAM, Web Authentication, multi-factor

From a data breach investigation of Verizon, roughly one in 10 employees will click on a malicious email.And the average phishing attack costs a mid-sized company $1.6 million.Computer phishing attacks are fraudulent processes where victims are tricked into giving away sensitive user information, potentially putting an entire company at risk.

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Society loves prophecy.  Whether it’s used as a justification for acts of good or evil, or even if it’s just a matter of looking at your friend and saying “HA!  I was right!”  Correctly predicting what’s coming is a safe bet in terms of drawing interest, and it is a small wonder that even the biggest tech giants have hopped on that bandwagon.  Of course, prophecy and reality often differ, and...

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My recent travels abroad have made me think about how I keep my information safe while I am in a new country.  As I was packing my carry-on with snacks, spare toiletries (in case we were stranded), external battery packs (to binge the latest on Netflix), and the multitude of chargers that accompany our tablets and phones, I hesitated. How am I going to protect the information on all of my...

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What is SSO authentication? SSO stands for “Single Sign-on” and is an extremely beneficial tool for businesses and individual users. In this day and age, users are being required to remember more and more passwords with the current average asking us to remember 12 in any given day. Password security is becoming tighter and alongside this, not only are passwords more complex but the majority of...

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Voice biometrics for Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) has been around for quite some time now but not widely adopted. Why is that? Most employees don’t know about this functionality because their organization isn't making it widely available as another tool to use to prove identity. According to Steve Zurier’s article, 70% of Consumers Want Biometrics in the Workplace, key points to user...

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There is no shortage of hacking attempts out there today. With more and more people using computers and smartphones, hackers are coming up with different ways of stealing sensitive data and using some old tactics too! Continue reading to learn how to protect against keyloggers.

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PortalGuard is excited to announce that we will be attending the 2019 Annual CISOA Conference!

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Every year at the EDUCAUSE Conference the Top 10 IT Issues for the upcoming year are announced. Leading up to each conference a panel of experts ranging from IT leaders, CIO’s and faculty members present a list of the top IT trends. which are then voted on by EDUCAUSE members. The top initiatives are the most important topics and trends and will be a focus for the upcoming year. This year was...

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