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Hi, what are you looking for?Biometrics in use at Washington Dulles International Airport. — Photo: U.S. DHS/ Public domainOctober is Cybersecurity Awareness Month in the U.S., and this covers a series of events and campaigns designed to improve the approaches by businesses and consumers to cybersecurity. This includes the importance of the right technology as well as the cultural factors needed to help shape good cybersecurity practices.Digital Journal has heard from two leading cybersecurity exponents as to the essential topics that need to be highlighted during the month.The first is Theresa Lanowitz, Head of Cybersecurity Evangelism at AT&amp;T Business, who looks at some of the more recent changes that have helped to foster in a new era of cybersecurity, including multi-factor authentication (MFA) and the strengthening of passwords.However, Lanowitz sees technological change as providing new challenges. She notes: “As edge computing expands, we expect the popularity of MFA to grow and include biometrics and biometric behaviours – like how you sign your name or your cadence in entering a numerical sequence.”The threat of biometrics is expanded to include: “While the use of biometrics to authenticate identity is not new, advancements in digital twins, deepfakes, and purpose-built IoT devices mean there is a need to secure our physical identities. Deep fakes may spoof more than your identity.”Building on the necessity to have multiple forms of identification and security, Lanowitz states: “Consider autonomous vehicles that have built-in MFA in key fobs. IoT devices are frequently ‘set and forget’ with a default password that may be as simple as ‘1234’, making it easy for cyber adversaries to either guess or have knowledge of the default password. It makes sense that biometrics, MFA, and device authentication are utilized in new endpoints such as autonomous vehicles since there are no direct inputs into vehicle networks—however, without an added layer of security, an adversary can execute DDoS attacks or gain access to the network by moving laterally through an IoT device with a default password.”Lanowitz concludes: “With this, endpoint detection and response (EDR), managed detection and response (MDR), and extended detection and response (XDR) are becoming baseline requirements.”The second expert is Darryl Jones, VP of Product (CIAM), Ping Identity, who focuses on the recurrent concerns around passwords. Jones finds: “Passwords pose one of the biggest cybersecurity threats to organizations and consumers alike. In fact, in 2022, there was a whopping 233 percent increase in U.S. data breaches exposing user credentials, compared to 2021. Credentials are attractive targets as they enable unauthorized access to sensitive systems, networks, and data.”Jones looks at what can be done to strengthen access to IT: “While multifactor authentication is a great step in the right direction for protecting user credentials, the reality is that password-based authentication practices fail at actually securing accounts. They inhibit a smooth user experience and are easy to exploit for financial gain. With the accelerated growth of phishing, malware, and ransomware attacks, which are all exacerbated by the rise in artificial intelligence (AI), organizations underestimate the risks associated with using passwords to protect valuable enterprise assets.”Illustrating the concept, Jones adds: “For example, generative AI can be used to guess passwords in an extremely human-like manner. It’s time to move away from this outdated form of authentication and move towards more innovative methods like biometrics, passkeys, and face IDs with liveness checks to avoid generative AI threats – not just this month, but all year round.”More than 75,000 employees at Kaiser Permanente began one of the largest healthcare worker strikes in recent US history.EU lawmakers on Tuesday backed proposals to boost journalistic independence.Can we get something right, for a change? This won’t go away on its own.Macron's constitutional reforms come amid political deadlock in a hung parliament - Copyright AFP Ozan KOSEFrancesco FONTEMAGGI, Tom BARFIELDFrench President Emmanuel Macron Wednesday vowed...

Hi, what are you looking for?Biometrics in use at Washington Dulles International Airport. — Photo: U.S. DHS/ Public domainOctober is Cybersecurity Awareness Month in the U.S., and this covers a series of events and campaigns designed to improve the approaches by businesses and consumers to cybersecurity. This includes the importance of the right technology as well as the cultural factors needed to help shape good cybersecurity practices.Digital Journal has heard from two leading cybersecurity exponents as to the essential topics that need to be highlighted during the month.The first is...

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