Despite holding the wealth of most Americans, the number one driver for financial services to update and maintain cyber security is compliance. International, federal, and many state and local governments are adopting compliance standards that require financial institutions to implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) security protection into their systems as quickly as possible.
Duo can be configured in a number of ways to be flexible enough to fit into any organization. Internally, we’ve made policy decisions to keep our company as secure as possible from the risk of credential compromise while still providing an accommodating and convenient end-user experience.
Unfortunately, the rise of student debt has attracted and emboldened a variety of bad actors looking to steal funds as they pass to the enrolled individuals. At the beginning of last school year, the Department of Education reported an increase in attempts to steal student loan disbursements. The good news is that multi-factor authentication can help protect student loan distributions.
Government has taken a little longer to get “on board” with cloud. We’ve had pockets of it here and there, but the security skepticism runs deep. And the security policies have been a little, shall we say, lacking. This is starting to change. Finally. For the better. This week, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its long awaited updated guidance for the Trusted Internet Connection — or TIC as it’s commonly referred to — updating it to version 3.0.
I spend a significant amount of time in airport lounges. One thing that I’ve come to understand is that travelers let down their guard when they’re in an airport lounge, and do things that they would not necessarily otherwise have done. Which makes frequent flying executives easy technology targets.
