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Virtualization and Two-factor Authentication
Posted by: admin 14 years, 9 months ago
There's been lots of discussion about cloud risks recently and how to improve cloud security. I want to point out that two-factor authentication will be a key piece of securing the cloud. From improving the security of the tunnel:
5 Ways to Improve Your Defenses Against Attack
Posted by: admin 14 years, 9 months ago
This article at CIO Magazines lists 5 ways to improve your defences, including:
The lessons from Guy Kawaski's twitter attack
Posted by: admin 14 years, 10 months ago
The lessons are sadly the same. Static passwords are weak and DNS is weak. The answer is two-factor authentication and either mutual https authentication or better DNS. Since DNS is unlikely to be fixed any time soon...
Cost savings WiKID vs Hardware tokens
Posted by: admin 14 years, 10 months ago
Needless to say, we've done a lot of analysis on how much an enterprise can save by switching from hardware tokens to WiKID. It occurred to me that security folk are suspicious people by nature, they like to see how the sausage is made and check the sources. So, I have uploaded a copy of the spreadsheet we use to google spreadsheets. Now you can see the formulas, get your own quotes from strong authentication vendors and compare yourself.
IRC web interface fixed
Posted by: admin 14 years, 10 months ago
I noticed that some visitors were trying to get to #wikid using the web interface but that no one was actually joining. I've switched the web interface to the official freenode tool and it appears that everything is working. So if you trying to chat about two-factor authentication on #wikid, please try again!
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