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Higher Education Specific
- Multifactor Authentication Approaches and Multifactor for InCommon Silver (2012)
Multifactor authentication (also referred to as two-factor authentication) adds another level of complexity and security to a password-only arrangement. Interest in multifactor continues to grow, as some federal agencies move in that direction. InCommon has added service offerings in this area, as well, and some schools now plan to use a second factor as a way to meet the requirements of the InCommon Silver Assurance Profile. Join our speakers to learn the basics about multifactor authentication, the pros and cons of different approaches to multifactor, and how one campus plans to use this approach for InCommon Silver
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MFA Technologies and whitepapers
- Duo Security: Top 7 Reasons Companies Don’t Use Two-Factor Authentication (Dec 2012)
In the spirit of year-end reviewing and wrapping up, we’ve been conferring with the ghosts of security trends past, present, and future. One of the most notable trends we’ve seen is that 2012 was the year in which two-factor authentication really broke out of the security community and became part of the broader conversation about everyone’s online account security.
Just to illustrate, the Google Trends graph to the right shows search interest over time in the phrase “two factor authentication.” That spike in August 2012 is Mat Honan’s well-chronicled epic account hack and since then the baseline level of interest in two-factor authentication has been nearly twice as high as it was before.
Knowing what we all know now about how vulnerable our digital lives and our personal and company data are to hacking and account takeover, the key question really isn’t “Why do companies need to add two-factor authentication?” but “Why hasn’t every company added it already?“
Here’s a roundup of seven of the objections to implementing two-factor authentication that we routinely hear. If any of these sound like your company, talk to us about how easy two-factor authentication can be.
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