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Duo Security's multi-factor authentication (MFA) is compliant for federal government use, approved by the Department of Homeland Security and is listed on the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Approved Products List (APL).
For federal agencies, compliance laws, policies and standards are often so confusing that they use specialized consultants to determine whether a desired IT initiative will result in compliance issues. Here, we’ll help you cut through the confusion and outline some of the key compliance regulations federal agencies must follow.
It would be pretty cool if we had a framework available to us that validated a user’s identity, validated the machine they were using, and applied some policy and context for everything they tried to access. A model that would move the perimeter to anywhere an access decision is made. Oh, wait, we do. It’s often referred to as zero trust.
New NIST guidelines recommend using long passphrases instead of seemingly complex passwords - check out a summary of the new best practices for password security in NIST’s SP 800-63B.
Here’s our analysis of the in-depth report on the OPM breach of over 20 million records and how leadership, spending and critical security failures led to a massive federal compromise of security clearance files, personnel data and fingerprint records.
