Top 5 reasons not to use SMS for multi-factor authentication

Top 5 reasons not to use SMS for multi-factor authentication

Using SMS as an additional means to authenticate your password is better than nothing, but it’s not the most reliable. Tom Merritt lists five reasons why SMS should not be used for MFA. Multi-factor authentication (MFA), or as we used to call it two-factor authentication, is essential–it means you don’t rely on your password alone for security. That password is something you know, but with MFA you also rely on other factors, like something you…

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California Launches COVID-19 CA Notify App, Anomali Reminds Consumers to Remain Vigilant When Participating in Digital Contact Tracing

California Launches COVID-19 CA Notify App, Anomali Reminds Consumers to Remain Vigilant When Participating in Digital Contact Tracing

When it comes to COVID-19, everyone wants to do their part to help the world win the battle against the virus. At Anomali, we are doing everything in our power to contribute to the cause. Our global workforce is personally committed to stopping the spread of the virus and we’ve shifted to a remote-work model that allows all of our employees to remain safe in their homes, as much as possible. We’ve also committed to…

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Cisco Champion 2021 Applications Are Now Open – Cisco Blogs

Cisco Champion 2021 Applications Are Now Open – Cisco Blogs

The best part of my day at Cisco is working with Cisco Champions. When I started my marketing career at Cisco, I had no idea my path would eventually lead me to working with the most passionate technologists in the industry. What a stroke of good luck! Cisco Champions exemplify what we think about when we envision a technology enthusiast—intelligent, informed, engaged, and passionate. They make geeky cool. They are educators and lifelong learners. They’ve…

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Winning in the Channel – Cisco Secure – Cisco Blogs

Winning in the Channel – Cisco Secure – Cisco Blogs

In the booming security industry, it can be hard to stand out in the crowd. That’s why it’s particularly exciting when the industry takes notice, and I’m happy to share that Cisco Secure took home multiple wins and finalist acknowledgments in the CRN 2020 Tech Innovator Awards and the just announced CRN 2020 Product of the Year Awards.  CRN Tech Innovator Award Winner Categories: Networking – SD-WAN Winner: Cisco SASE Security – Cloud Winner: Cisco…

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Do you have visibility and insights needed to redesign and secure your workforce?

Do you have visibility and insights needed to redesign and secure your workforce?

When we launched Cisco Annual Internet Report earlier this year, there was no visibility into the new trends that were going to be unleashed by the pandemic globally just a month later.  While the rampant spread of COVID19 has created some new trends there are a number of findings from the Internet report that are still likely to bear out. Let’s look at what is still relevant and what are the new trends.. We feel…

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Half of US Schools Skipped Remote Security Training

Half of US Schools Skipped Remote Security Training

A new report on the cybersecurity of the education sector has found that nearly half of the schools in the United States did not implement new training or tools to protect staff and students during the pandemic. The CTNT report “Lessons learned: How education coped in the shift to distance learning” from Malwarebytes details data from 500 students and 75 IT decision makers at educational institutions. Researchers found that while 70% of schools adopted new software such as Zoom,…

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Reaching New Levels of Performance for Graphic-Intensive Workloads with Cisco and NVIDIA – Cisco Blogs

Reaching New Levels of Performance for Graphic-Intensive Workloads with Cisco and NVIDIA – Cisco Blogs

The professional world faced an unprecedented disruption throughout the year of 2020. Organizations across the globe were forced to quickly adapt to a rapidly changing and uncertain landscape as offices locked their doors and pivoted to working remotely in an effort to keep their employees safe and their businesses secure. As workforces across all industries became accustomed to working from home, companies and professionals that relied on collaboration faced a new challenge: How could they…

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AWS is Cisco’s 2020 Ecosystem Partner of the Year! – Cisco Blogs

AWS is Cisco’s 2020 Ecosystem Partner of the Year! – Cisco Blogs

As I’ve written in previous blogs, Cisco and AWS continue to do fantastic work together, making it easier for our mutual customers to accelerate their cloud journeys. In this blog, I’d like to take a moment to look back on the relationship—sharing that AWS recently received the Cisco 2020 Ecosystem Partner of the Year award—and also take a look forward by highlighting one of our newest jointly developed offers, Cisco SD-WAN integrated with AWS Transit…

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5 minutes with Michael Rezek – Ensuring holiday cyber-readiness

5 minutes with Michael Rezek – Ensuring holiday cyber-readiness

5 minutes with Michael Rezek – Ensuring holiday cyber-readiness | 2020-12-07 | Security Magazine This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more….

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