Authentication has been a part of digital life since MIT set up a password on their shared-access computer in 1961. Today, authentication covers virtually every interaction you can have on the ...

Driving Passwordless Adoption with FIDO and Biometric Authentication - 06:13 For decades, passwords have been the default ...

Online threats are constantly evolving, so it’s often difficult, even counterproductive, to compare how useful a security control is in today’s threat environment to the threat environment of a few ...

Everyone agrees that authenticating your identity to log in, whether at work or at home, is usually either quite easy but not secure at all or very secure but painfully difficult. People naturally ...

Two-factor authentication is a security process that requires users to provide two distinct authentication factors to access an account. By introducing a second layer ...

When two-factor authentication was first introduced, it revolutionized device security and helped make identity theft much more difficult – at the slight cost of minor inconvenience added to logins.

Hackers often exploit reused passwords, gaining access to multiple accounts if just one is compromised. To stay safe, use strong, unique passwords for every account and change them regularly. However, ...

It's often said that the most important things you can do protect your accounts and wider network from hackers is to use multi-factor authentication (MFA). Everyone needs a password manager. If you're ...

An ancient network authentication protocol has received its first death notice. The protocol, which has roots going back to the first local area network days of the 1980s, is called Microsoft NTLM, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about contemporary cybersecurity and online privacy issues. Before talking about what authentication is and how it works, ...

It’s easy to secure minimal API endpoints in ASP.NET Core using JSON Web Tokens for authentication and authorization. Just follow these steps. ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called ...