We’ve compared passkeys to passwords and magic links, and recently explored two-factor authentication (2FA) and time-based one-time passwords (TOTP). We think this calls for a passkey and 2FA face-off, don’t you?
New data focused on the first half of the year shows some anomalies. Phishing attacks are slowing down… that is, until you dive into the details. I can’t remember the last time I posted a headline stating that phishing numbers were down; that’s because we haven’t seen this trend occur in a number of years. But new data from Vade Secure’s H1 2023 Phishing and Malware Report shows an interesting outlier that skews a high-level view of the data.
Role-based access control (RBAC) is an approach for controlling which actions and resources in a system are available to different users. Users are assigned roles that grant them permission to use particular system features. Kubernetes has a robust built-in RBAC implementation for authorizing user interactions with your cluster. Setting up RBAC allows you to define the specific actions that users can perform on each Kubernetes object type.
Trust is hard to earn but necessary for any successful relationship. As organizations build the systems to support Zero Trust, they find themselves balancing security and functionality across their operations. Incident Response and Network Operations in particular can be full of traumatic experiences, and as we sink into those moments the typical responses are freeze, flight, or fight.
On June 15, 2023, the residents of Spring Valley, IL woke up to the sobering news that St. Margareth’s Health hospital, one of only a few hospitals in the region, would be closing. The cause of the closure? A devastating cyberattack. After falling prey to cybercriminals, the hospital’s personnel were unable to submit claims to insurers, Medicare or Medicaid for months, which ultimately spelled its financial doom. The St. Margareth’s incident is not an outlier.
