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Healthcare Cyber Security 2022. Avoiding Data Breaches

Healthcare Cyber Security 2022 | Avoiding Data Breaches

Though cyberattacks are nothing new in the online world, there has been an astounding increase in healthcare cyber security breaches. While healthcare services hold a lot of our valuable personal information, they have surprisingly vulnerable security solutions. On this page, we’ll look at the most significant reasons why cyber attackers target healthcare services, the main risks involved, and how hospitals can enhance their healthcare security solutions.

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Hideez Enables Passwordless Access to Enterprise Services with Endpoint Biometric sensor to Enhance its FIDO Server

Hideez FIDO Server for Passwordless Authentication
Hideez Group has rolled out a new 3.8.6 version of the Hideez Authentication Server, which allows passwordless access with different types of FIDO authenticators. A demo version of the updated server is now available for businesses and anyone interested in implementing Hideez Authentication Service to protect their infrastructure.
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How to Password Protect Folders in Windows 10 and Secure Your Files?

How to Password Protect a Folder?
Password protecting your folders adds great protection to your sensitive information. It minimizes the chances of anyone snooping around, especially if you share a Windows PC with multiple users. Best of all, you can choose from a variety of different tools to password protect your folders entirely for free. There’s even a built-in Windows password protection tool.
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From passwords to passwordless: Apple adopts a new authentication technology

Apple adopts passwordless technology
Apple has finally introduced its new passkeys technology in a move to foster the development of passwordless authentication. With passkeys in iCloud Keychain, macOS and iOS users will get the option to log in to their accounts with just a username and a Face ID or Touch ID scan, which is promised to be easier, faster, and much more secure than traditional password-based logins and MFA. 
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The New FIDO UX Guidelines & FIDO2 Enhancements

FIDO UX Guidelines
The FIDO Alliance recently made a significant move towards a passwordless world, announcing new FIDO2 standards and its first user experience (UX) guidelines. The latter is a major step towards even broader FIDO adoption, as it provides consumers with helpful information on how they can benefit from adopting FIDO. 
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What is DLP? Data Loss Prevention for Enterprises

data loss prevention
DLP stands for Data Loss Prevention. The definition of data loss prevention is that it's a set of tools and security processes that ensures the safety of data. This includes protecting data from getting lost, misused, or accessed by unauthorized parties.
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Hideez Key 4, A New Key Ensuring Passwordless Access In Both Digital and Physical World

Hideez Key 4
Our new security solution, Hideez Key 4, is now on sale and will be available for pre-order at a special price of $49 until August 2021. The device has multi-protocol support, including TOTP, FIDO U2F, and FIDO2, supplemented by password management opportunities, proximity-based authentication, and a built-in pre-programmed RFID tag to open RFID door locks. 
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Hideez Assists FIDO Alliance in Launching the New Metadata Specification (MDS3)

FIDO MDS3
With the demise of password-based security and a growing diversity of authenticators over the last few years, a new streamlined repository to add and view FIDO Certified authenticators has long been needed. And here comes the Metadata Service version 3! The service was upgraded by the FIDO Alliance in collaboration with Hideez Group and introduced this week as a replacement to the deprecated MDS2.
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SAML Basics: What is SAML And How Does It Work?

<b>SAML Basics: What is SAML And How Does It Work?</b>
SAML authentication is a widely used method that makes all of our lives easier. But, most online users don’t know how SAML works or what it even is, for that matter. There are many terms you can use to describe the features and capabilities of SAML for authentication purposes. On this page, we’ll run you through all of the SAML basics and help you understand this open standard the majority of people use daily.
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How to Secure your Gmail Account in 2022? - Email Security Best Practices

<b> How to Secure your Gmail Account in 2022? - Email Security Best Practices</b>

Gmail is one of the most popular and yet most vulnerable email services. Backed by the largest search engine in the world and with over 1 billion email users and a corresponding amount of payment and confidential information, it attracts many scammers. It inspired us at Hideez to investigate the topic and provide tips on how to secure your Gmail account in 2022.

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What Is Single-Factor Authentication? SFA Pros and Cons

What Is Single-Factor Authentication? SFA pros and cons
Single-factor authentication (SFA) was the norm for many years before multi-factor authentication started gradually replacing it. In today’s era of highly developed information systems, most security experts agree that single-factor authentication simply isn’t enough to keep you safe.
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NIST Password Guidelines 2021. Password Policy Best Practices

NIST Password Guidelines | Password Policy Best Practices

Since 2014, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued guidelines, recommendations, and controls for identity authentication, including optimal password policy practices. The NIST password guidelines cover crucial practices for creating and managing passwords and requirements for the validation of these passwords

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