Tag Archives: Phishing

Six ways to maintain compliance and remain secure

With approximately 3.4 billion malicious emails circulating daily, it is crucial for organisations to implement strong safeguards to protect against phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks. It is a problem that is not going to go away. In fact, email phishing scams continue to rise, with news of Screwfix customers being targeted breaking at a few weeks ago. Today, every business large or small is a target. So, what can be done to prevent a business’ email being hacked. And what can be done to mitigate the impact should the worse happen.

FIDO approach reveals identity and access confusion

FIDO’s approach to passwords, while convenient, first reveals a dangerous confusion between access and identity. Contrary to popular belief, the two are not interchangeable. Identities are fixed while access keys are changeable. In the physical world, we use them for different needs.

Your identity is used to identify yourself, for example when you cross a country border, when you need to prove you have the legal rights to live in a country or to live in a house. Your legal identity is fixed and doesn’t change when you change job or country. Your identity is unique.

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