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Tag: 2FA

Two-Step Verification Will End Consensual Impersonation

Two-Step Verification Will End Consensual Impersonation:

IT security pros are typically delighted to do away with employees’ option for consensual impersonation, and indeed, privileged identity management systems work really hard to make it impossible for those with superuser powers to do.… Continued

April 11, 2013
Two-Step Verification Dances Around the Issue

Given this problem…

Even with two factor authentication, you need a mechanism to reset if you forget your password and/or lose your second factor (whatever that is).

…the guys at CryptoPhoto came up with a neat idea: have another factor authenticate you in case you lose access to one of your first two.… Continued

August 17, 2012