The WiKID Blog, musings on two-factor authentication, information security and some other stuff.
A whole bunch of new Check Point Tutorials
Posted by: admin 7 years, 11 months ago
We have just completed a few new tutorials for Check Point. We used the Gaia Open Server R77 and the Smart Console. It's pretty slick, except for only running on Windows. Certainly better than the dated Java interface of the Cisco ASAs.
Privacy concerns about SMS-based two-factor authentication
Posted by: admin 7 years, 11 months ago
Imagine these conversations:
A whole bunch of Cisco Two-factor Tutorials
Posted by: admin 8 years, 1 month ago
We've spent some time in our lab with a Cisco ASA 5500 series VPN and we have posted a few of tutorials:
4 Steps to Mitigate 95% of Known Vulnerabilities
Posted by: admin 8 years, 2 months ago
The article "4 Steps to Mitigate 95% of Known Vulnerabilities" piqued my interest. The Australian DoD also has their top four mitigation strategies (and their top four for Linux). While I like the simplification of 4 things versus 35, it would be great to be able to match up the controls/strategies with actual percentage of time the control forces an attacker to adapt or give up. The 2014 Verizon DBIR, for example, states that lost, stolen or weak credentials were used in three-quarters of all attacks making a strong case for two-factor authentication.
Seven common misconceptions about two-factor authentication
Posted by: admin 8 years, 2 months ago
We get a lot of questions from enterprises as they deploy two-factor authentication. There are a good number of misconceptions out there about how to do it. Here's are six that we see frequently as enterprises first start to think about two-factor authentication:
Recent Posts
- WiKID 6 is released!
- Log4j CVE-2021-44228
- Questions about 2FA for AD admins
- WiKID Android tokens had their data deleted over the weekend by Google Chrome bug
- Scalability improvements in version 5.0 of the WiKID Strong Authentication server
Archive
2022
- December (1)
2021
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
- December (2)
- November (3)
- October (3)
- September (5)
- August (4)
- July (5)
- June (5)
- May (2)
- April (2)
- March (2)
- February (3)
- January (1)
2013
2012
- December (1)
- November (1)
- October (5)
- September (1)
- August (1)
- June (2)
- May (2)
- April (1)
- March (2)
- February (3)
- January (1)
2011
2010
- December (2)
- November (3)
- October (3)
- September (4)
- August (1)
- July (1)
- June (3)
- May (3)
- April (1)
- March (1)
- February (6)
- January (3)
2009
- December (4)
- November (1)
- October (3)
- September (3)
- August (2)
- July (5)
- June (6)
- May (8)
- April (7)
- March (6)
- February (4)
- January (427)
2008
- December (1)
Categories
- PCI-DSS (2)
- Two-factor authentication (3)
Tags
- wireless-cellular-mobile-devices (7)
- Two-factor authentication (10)
- Wireless, cellular, mobile devices (6)
- NPS (1)
- Phishing and Fraud (111)
- Active Directory (1)
- pam-radius (3)
- privileged access (2)
- Cloud Security (10)
- Mutual Authentication (60)
- Web Application Authentication (1)
- Authentication Attacks (99)
- pci (50)
- Security and Economics (97)
- WiKID (133)
- pam (2)
- VPN (1)
- Installation (2)
- RADIUS Server (1)
- Open Source (64)
- Tutorial (2)
- Strong Authentication (35)
- Information Security (137)
- Transaction Authentication (13)
- Miscellaneous (100)
- Linux (2)
- transaction-authentication (6)
- Two Factor Authentication (254)