Stay One Step Ahead of Cyber-Attacks at All-time Using emAS MFA In adjusting to the new normal, access and authentication has taken a significantly more prominent role in the IT Security landscape of today. eMudhra has been working in Identity & Digital Trust for over a decade and has been instrumental in bringing some of …
emAS MFA – The Need for Strong Authentication
Businesses and consumers alike world over are encouraged to adopt Two-factor Authentication (2FA) as a means of strengthening their security apparatus. But 2FA isn’t ironclad and the recent cyber-attack in Germany wherein hundreds of bank accounts were drained after hacking the routing system and redirecting text messages is a testimony to this fact. In such …
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Centralized Authentication Engine for BFSI
As per a recent Forbes study, BFSI companies are 300 times more vulnerable to cyber-attacks than businesses operating in any other sector. Don’t you agree? Then the following figures should clear the air. While a typical business in the US is attacked 4 million times per year, this number jumps up to over 1 billion times per …
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emAS MFA – Addressing the Need for Strong Authentication
Businesses and consumers alike world over are encouraged to adopt Two-factor Authentication (2FA) as a means of strengthening their security apparatus. But 2FA isn't ironclad and the recent cyber-attack in Germany wherein hundreds of bank accounts were drained after hacking the routing system and redirecting text messages is a testimony to this fact. In such …
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Moving beyond OTP and 2FA – emAS MFA
NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) is no longer recommending OTP's as a form of authentication.-https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/nist_is_no_long.html Given today’s threat landscape, good security requires strong authentication practices. Passwords and OTP's are no longer considered secure, which is why there is a need to use other forms of authentication that is based on a combination …