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The New FIDO UX Guidelines & FIDO2 Enhancements
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.
What is DLP? Data Loss Prevention for Enterprises
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.
Hideez Key 4, A New Key Ensuring Passwordless Access In Both Digital and Physical World
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.
Hideez Assists FIDO Alliance in Launching the New Metadata Specification (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.
SAML Basics: What is SAML And How Does It Work?
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.
How to Secure your Gmail Account in 2022? - Email Security Best Practices
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.
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.
NIST Password Guidelines 2021. 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
What is a Hardware Token? Hard Tokens vs. Soft Tokens
Passwords are flawed, and nowadays, obsolete methods of authentication. For this reason, cybersecurity companies have developed more sophisticated authentication methods for ensuring enhanced user security. The most notable examples are hardware tokens, dedicated portable devices that authenticate the user’s identity and prevent unauthorized access.
CPRA explained. What does it mean for Businesses?
The CCPA, California Consumer Privacy Act, has been legally enforceable since July 1st of last year. It is the first significant privacy law in the US pertaining to consumer control of personal data. And, even though it hasn’t even been a year since the official legal enforcement of the CCPA started, Californians have already voted for the follow-up act, called the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).
[Webinar] Revolution in authentication Fast Identity Online. Technology that will change the world
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Webinar on passwordless authentication and its implementation in the business environment. Discussion topics:🔺Will the FIDO standard replace passwords? 🔺The magic of FIDO passwordless authentication. 🔺 Case studies of Fast Identity🔺Questions and answers
Wireless Electronic Signature “Almaz-1K”: convenience and safety in your pocket
Hideez Group, together with the Institute of Information Technologies JSC, presented a new tool for secure data storage - the Almaz-1K electronic key, which supports Bluetooth wireless technology.