Cybersecurity for Businesses

Cybersecurity for businesses is essential to protecting their digital assets.

Most cyberattacks directed at individuals and corporations tend to take advantage of the human element.

Although, the exploits weren’t limited to taking advantage of direct human error and poor cyber hygiene.

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They also employed phishing schemes over a long period of time to create a way in.

What Are Passwordless Logins?

The login approach uses an asymmetric encryption method and two cryptographic keys—private and public.

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What Is Multi-Factor Authentication?

Its main purpose is to prevent unauthorized access to an account or machine in case the password fails.

There are many ways you’re free to add MFA to an account.

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More common methods include using a one-time password (OTP) that’s generated on a separate machine.

How Well do They Work With Businesses?

The same can’t be said about soft and hard authentication tokens, codes, and links.

Such methods have more than one step to verify and include transferring data.

Also, most of them rely on emails andcellphones, which are hackers' preferred venues of attacks.

To get around the cost and scalability issues, consider segmenting online grid security.