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The Cybersecurity Playbook for Modern Enterprises

You're reading from   The Cybersecurity Playbook for Modern Enterprises An end-to-end guide to preventing data breaches and cyber attacks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803248639
Length 280 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jeremy Wittkop Jeremy Wittkop
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 – Modern Security Challenges
2. Chapter 1: Protecting People, Information, and Systems – a Growing Problem FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Human Side of Cybersecurity 4. Chapter 3: Anatomy of an Attack 5. Section 2 – Building an Effective Program
6. Chapter 4: Protecting People, Information, and Systems with Timeless Best Practices 7. Chapter 5: Protecting against Common Attacks by Partnering with End Users 8. Chapter 6: Information Security for a Changing World 9. Section 3 – Solutions to Common Problems
10. Chapter 7: Difficulty Securing the Modern Enterprise (with Solutions!) 11. Chapter 8: Harnessing Automation Opportunities 12. Chapter 9: Cybersecurity at Home 13. Answers 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Multifactor authentication

Consumer multifactor authentication involves verifying your identity using a text message to your phone or a verification sent to a mobile application. While multifactor authentication can be a hassle at times, it will prevent most attacks against your account. The result is any application or service that will allow you to purchase something or log into other applications should be protected by multifactor authentication. While that seems like a small subset of services, most services in common use will do one or both of those things.

Most actors looking to compromise a consumer account will not go through the hassle of trying to defeat multifactor authentication. This is especially true when there are so many targets who do not have it enabled. In some cases, such as most consumer banking applications and websites, multifactor authentication is required. In other cases, it is optional. In most cases, it should be enabled when it is an option.

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