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How to move your two-factor authentication app to a new device

The Parallax

What the design itself does make clear is that when security-minded consumers upgrade their devices, they will have to take a few extra steps to migrate their two-factor authentication apps. Here’s how the migration process works for the most popular two-factor authentication apps. There are a few steps you need to take first.

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Secure Your Backup with Multi-Factor Authentication

Kaseya

However,today, even backups are not always safe and are being targeted by cybercriminals. Recently, a Managed Service Provider was hit by a ransomware attack which disabled their backup and recovery systems and spread malware to their end-customer networks. . Leverage Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) to Secure Backup .

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Make a resolution to clean up your digital act? Here’s how

The Parallax

Step 1: Use two-factor authentication. In its most common form online, two-factor authentication makes you use a second, one-time password to access your account. Set up your phone with a passcode or other security measure, use two-factor authentication (there it is again!), and use only apps that have been verified as safe.

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VU raises $12M to remove cybersecurity friction from digital experiences

TechCrunch

VU’s technology takes a person’s “online persona” and uses geolocation, biometrics and user behavior analysis to provide identity verification for users and enable a continuous authentication process that sees and connects the users’ online and offline personas. It’s time for security teams to embrace security data lakes.

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How Druva used Amazon Bedrock to address foundation model complexity when building Dru, Druva’s backup AI copilot

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Dru , the Druva backup AI copilot, enables real-time interaction and personalized responses, with users engaging in a natural conversation with the software. From finding inconsistencies and errors across the environment to scheduling backup jobs and setting retention policies, users need only ask and Dru responds.

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How to use your Android as a 2FA key

The Parallax

or later, you are a few steps away from turning it into a two-factor authentication key , the company announced at its annual I/O developer conference here on May 7. It is much safer than one-time code systems, including SMS or authenticator code systems, as this is based on the FIDO 2.0

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There is no longer any such thing as Computer Security

Coding Horror

Work emails were protected by two-factor authentication, a technique that uses a second passcode to keep accounts secure. 1) Enable Two Factor authentication through an app, and not SMS , everywhere you can. Have I mentioned that Discourse added two factor authentication support in version 2.0 , and our just released 2.1