INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Due to you-know-what (if I have to type "corona" or "COVID" again, I'll scream), enterprises have been forced to send a massive number of
employees into makeshift home offices within just a few days
That means that there was no time for the security niceties, such as properly processing RFPs for apps that were thoroughly vetted
Given the emergency, employees and IT teams worked with what they could, figuring that they would improve security on the fly as soon as
circumstances permitted.That brings us to MFA
Multifactor authentication is supposed to be just that, but it's typically deployed in the least secure manner — sending straight numeric
texts to a mobile device, a tactic that is well-known to be susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks
So, are there better ways to deploy MFA, something that can be easily executed under today's far-less-than-ideal conditions? Let's dig in.To
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