inWebo Blog: Exploring Authentication, Identity, Privacy, and Security

If there is anything to be learned from 2017’s array of massive data breaches, it’s that single-password authentication is no longer enough to warrant security. Deloitte, one of the world’s top accounting firms, learned this the hard way. Last year, the company was hit with a massive hack that compromised private emails as well as confidential information of some its blue-chip clients. Sources told The Guardian that the breach occurred through an administrator’s account, which gave hackers unrestricted access to everything else. The account in question required a single password, with no two-step verification. Read More

The selection of the “right” MFA solution can be tricky. First, because there’s a constant flow of innovation in the authentication industry, resulting in numerous and diverse technologies even for solutions supposedly following a standard. Second, because the applications and environments needing MFA are also very different (cloud vs. onprem, legacy vs. web, ldap vs. radius, SAML, or OIDC, etc.). Lastly because not all solutions have the same objectives or protect against the same risks. Read More

As we should all know by now, 1/ everything is getting connected, the Internet is no longer about computers and servers only but also about billions of objects that once belonged to distinct categories, such as consumer electronics, automotive, medical devices, industrial and infrastructure systems etc. And 2/, security issues are going to be even larger and scarier in the era of the Internet of Things.

This raises a few questions for the cybersecurity industry, such as: Are we ready to address this challenge? Have we developed the right tools yet? The short answer is no. Read More

One of the main new features presented during Apple keynote this September is a face recognition mechanism that will be part of the iPhone X. FaceID, how that mechanism is called, will initially be used as a way to unlock the phone screen, which is also how TouchID was introduced on the iPhone 5s in 2013. Read More