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Passwordless Technology is Here to Stay

A Bitwarden survey reveals business leaders are on board with passwordless workflows as weak or reused passwords present vulnerabilities.

October 25, 2022 Alyssa Borelli Leave a Comment

Passwordless technology is here to stay, according to the latest research from Bitwarden, the Santa Barabara, Calif.-based provider of open source password manager for businesses and individuals. It’s 2023 Password Decisions Survey polled 800 IT decision makers across a range of industries, showing that businesses are enthusiastic about passwordless technology and its perceived security benefits […]

Exchange Online Password Spray Attacks Up As Basic Auth Phase Out Begins

Microsoft revives urging Exchange Online customers to disable basic auth on their own before the end of the year.

October 5, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft says it is seeing indicators that Exchange Online customers are being targeted by password spray attacks leveraging basic authentication as the company begins to phase out basic auth in Exchange. The company has for three years been urging customers to move away from basic auth, and Microsoft has disabled it in “millions of tenants […]

More than Half of Employees Still Rely on Username and Password as Primary Authentication Method

Yubico's State of Global Enterprise Authentication Survey reveals enterprise still have a way to go to adopting and standardizing phishing-resistant MFA tools.

September 30, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Yubico, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based provider of hardware authentication security keys revealed results of its inaugural State of Global Enterprise Authentication Survey 2022 at a security thought-leadership industry summit. The survey, conducted for Yubico by Censuswide, polled 16,000+ employees across a variety of enterprises in eight countries and asked about their perceptions and perceived challenges of […]

JumpCloud Launches Password Manager

JumpCloud says its new password manager relies on a decentralized architecture that is a hybrid cloud-based and offline password manager.

September 12, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

JumpCloud, an open directory platform for secure access, is launching a password manager to give IT admins and managed service providers better controls and enable password management across multiple users and groups. According to the company, JumpCloud Password Manager relies on a decentralized architecture that is a hybrid between a cloud-based manager and an offline […]

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Hitachi ID and HYPR Accelerate Path to Passwordless Future

Hitachi ID's partnership with HYPR has elevated the Bravura Security Fabric, enabling customers to eliminate passwords across critical workflows.

August 22, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Credentials are the most popular targets of hackers, who are only growing more sophisticated in their ability to automate attacks that bypass traditional forms of multi-factor authentication. Organizations are stuck between having their security teams add increasing complexity in a race to protect credentials and a user experience getting progressively cumbersome. Hitachi ID has partnered […]

1Password Rolls Out New iOS, Android Platform

1Password 8 for iOS and Android is designed to enable seamless security for users from whichever device they prefer.

August 10, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Password manager 1Password has released 1Password 8 for iOS and Android, a new mobile platform designed to streamline productivity and security protections and bring more feature parity between desktop and mobile apps. The company bills 1Password 8 for iOS and Android as the completion of the 1Password 8 roll-out across all supported devices and a […]

Google Updates Password Manager For Unified Experience

Google is updating Password Manager with a new unified management experience across the web, Android and iOS.

July 1, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Google is starting to roll out new updates to Google Password Manager that help users make it easier to remember their passwords, including a new unified management experience that is the same across Chrome and Android. According to Google, the updates come as a result of feedback from its users about how confusing it can […]

Research: Remote End Users, Contractors Need Password Better Management Tools

Bitwarden survey reveals that while enterprises are taking password security more seriously, password managers can be better utilized.

June 21, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

New research suggests that strong passwords remain a cybersecurity priority, but the adoption of strong password policies continues to fall short. According to the research from password management company Bitwarden, nearly enterprise IT decision makers are familiar with one-time passwords, email or SMS verification codes, biometrics and other passwordless authenticators, but 55% of global organizations […]

Best Practices for Password Security

A password manager will make your life easier and more secure, while silencing that nagging voice in your head.

June 17, 2022 Tim Singleton Leave a Comment

We all know the password mantra: Make it long, strong and unique. Also, include upper-case letters, lower-case letters, numbers and special characters. And don’t forget to use different passwords everywhere — at least eight characters, but preferably more. Plus, remember to change them frequently. Phew! And as if all that weren’t enough, here’s another: Never […]

LastPass Launches Passwordless Login to Vault

LastPass is launching a new secure passwordless login to the LastPass vault via the LastPass Authenticator.

June 7, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Password management provider LastPass is launching a new secure passwordless login to the LastPass vault via the LastPass Authenticator, creating a passwordless password manager, which the company says is a first for the security industry. The Boston, Mass.-based company says the launch of passwordless login comes as the company is committed to a standards-based FIDO-supported […]