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September 29, 2022

Multifactor Authentication Is Not a Panacea

Jack Poller

Market Topics

Cybersecurity

GettyImages-1276687348Two recent high-profile breaches—Intercontinental Hotels Group and Uber—demonstrate the criticality of securing your identities. Both of these attacks started with a social engineering attack. One started with traditional business email compromise (BEC), and the other started with MFA push bombing. The next stage of both attacks compromised the password/secrets vault.

Read my blog post to learn why MFA is not a panacea and why it’s time to adopt a passwordless strategy.

 

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