J. Wolfgang Goerlich is an Advisory CISO for Duo Security. He has led IT and IT security in the healthcare and financial services verticals, and advisory and assessment practices in several cyber security consulting firms.
The place many of us get held up is where to begin. It’s not feasible to move everything into a zero-trust architecture. And passwordless, arguably the first step in establishing strong user identity in order to provide zero-trust for the workforce, doesn’t yet support all applications and workloads. A look to the past can help us understand the future.
The best security control is the security control people actually use. We’ve shifted from enforcing security to creating security that users want to adopt. When it comes to zero trust, one thing many of us have been considering is how to make it attractive to end users. Enter passwordless authentication.
Duo has a strong technical partnership with Microsoft and we work closely to provide security solutions to solve challenges that our customers may be facing. As you may be aware, there was recently a critical vulnerability disclosed by Microsoft which affects cryptographic functions. In this post we tell you how to protect yourself with Duo.
The film "Blade Runner" takes place in Los Angeles in 2019 and while it got some things right, it got some things wrong. Our CISO advisor J. Wolfgang Goerlich walks us through the cybersecurity past and shares his thoughts on what lies ahead like blended technologies and blended techniques.
In cybersecurity, we like our multi-year roadmaps. In home improvements, we like our long-term plans. For both, we like to get everything squared away before inviting people in. That’s simply not feasible in most cases. Like the sprints in agile, zero trust can be taken in small but powerful steps.
