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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

Hackers are the craftiest of fish. They nibble at your account day by day, trying 2 wrong password attempts and stopping before the 3^rd attempt locks your account. Then, they wait a day for you, the user, to log into your account and reset the password tries before they try to log in again. Think about how often you log into your most important accounts. Do you log in every day? Month? Less...

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The internet is a curious thing. It empowers us by being a gateway to the world's information, increases productivity by enabling us to work anywhere in the world and entertains us by streaming decades' worth of music, movies and television shows with a few clicks. Unfortunately, it also harbors the worst kinds of profit or thrill-seeking miscreants and criminals whether they are working alone...

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