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The WiKID Blog, musings on two-factor authentication, information security and some other stuff.

A whole bunch of new Check Point Tutorials

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

Imagine these conversations:

A whole bunch of Cisco Two-factor Tutorials

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

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

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:

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