As much as our digital ecosystem has advanced in recent years, some elements of the security world have been slower to change. For example, a shortage of well-trained cybersecurity professionals has ...

A research team has developed a new biometric authentication technology that can identify users without storing their ...

Insecure authentication is a primary cause of cyber breaches, and that cumbersome login methods take an unacceptable toll on employees and business productivity, according to HYPR. Respondents ...

Protecting API communications has become a top priority for IT security teams as APIs rapidly become a popular target for hackers. This problem will only worsen as perimeterless deployments become ...

In today’s digital age, personal data is never safe. Cybercriminals are looking for every opportunity possible to acquire your user data. Ongoing data breaches continue to expose usernames, passwords, ...

Microsoft this week announced a preview of "Authentication Strength," a new control for organizations using the Azure Active Directory Conditional Access service. Authentication Strength lets IT pros ...

An acquaintance asked me for advice, saying, "I want to install Spotify, but I can't log in to Google." I will summarize how ...

Yubico and Okta find passwords still common in enterprise authentication even as passkeys and hardware security keys gain ...

Setting up two-factor authentication on X is not enough on its ownIf you are setting up two-factor authentication on X, do ...

As promised last issue, I’m re-printing a glossary of strong/second factor authentication methods that TriCipher provided me along with the results of its sponsored survey on people’s perceptions of ...

Authentication is the process of proving a user's or machine's digital identity. Users are authenticated when they provide some form of credential associated with their user ID. Authentication methods ...