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Adaptive Authentication
Roaming users and remote access to organizations’ confidential data is becoming a larger security concern leading to a conflict of interest of maintaining usability while increasing security. When users log in with standard credentials, such as a username and password, it makes them vulnerable to cyberattacks. Two factor Authentication (2FA) or multi factor authentication (MFA) are strong solutions that provide better security by requiring additional credentials, but end-users do not always adopt the solutions easily because it can’t adapt to user access scenarios on the fly.
What if there was a solution that not only matched an organization’s policies and compliance standards but provided a dynamic solution that applied context to the authentication process; thus, provides a seamless and easy to use authentication option for all users. This is the definition of Adaptive Authentication (also known as Contextual Authentication) which asks for different credentials, depending on the situation, making it difficult for a hacker to compromise data while still providing an easy user experience for qualified employees.
What is Adaptive Authentication?
Adaptive authentication is a form of two factor authentication that takes into account t
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Password strength
Resistance of a password to being guessed
For organizational rules on passwords, see Password policy.
Password strength is a measure of the effectiveness of a password against guessing or brute-force attacks. In its usual form, it estimates how many trials an attacker who does not have direct access to the password would need, on average, to guess it correctly. The strength of a password is a function of length, complexity, and unpredictability.[1]
Using strong passwords lowers the overall risk of a security breach, but strong passwords do not replace the need for other effective security controls.[2] The effectiveness of a password of a given strength is strongly determined by the design and implementation of the authentication factors (knowledge, ownership, inherence). The first factor is the main focus of this article.
The rate at which an attacker can submit guessed passwords to the system is a key factor in determining system security. Some systems impose a time-out of several seconds after a small number (e.g. three) of failed password entry attempts. In the absence of other vulnerabilities, such systems can be effectively secured with relatively simple passwords. However, the system store information about the user's pas
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