Best Protectimus MFA Features for Financial Services Cybersecurity
The financial services industry is inherently more at risk of cyberattacks than any other industry. Financial sector includes everything from investment consultants and stocks to insurance and banking; naturally, the money that floats within the financial industry is very tempting to hackers. In fact, according to Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report — 71% of recent cyber attacks were motivated by money itself, nothing...
Sophos 2FA with Hardware OTP Tokens
Sophos solutions allow for reinforcing Sophos 2FA (two-factor authentication) with Protectimus OTP hardware tokens with one of these two methods: Enabling ‘Auto-create OTP tokens for users’ feature. This automatic method allows for using our programmable Slim NFC token instead of the standard application for multi-factor authentication.Disabling ‘Auto-create OTP tokens for users’ feature. This manual method allows for...
2FA Chatbots vs. SMS Authentication
In this article, we’ll explain what is a bot for two-factor authentication and how 2FA chatbots (two-factor authentication with messaging service chatbots) work. We’ll look at the pros and cons of this one-time password delivery method and figure out which is best: 2FA bots or SMS authentication. Table of contents: How did the Protectimus Bot token come to be? How does two-factor authentication with chatbots work? 2FA...
How to Secure Bitcoin Wallet
A couple of years ago Bitcoin made quite a stir all across the mainstream media when the price skyrocketed. People that never even heard about blockchain, cryptocurrencies or Bitcoin wallet suddenly started looking into buying some. That’s when more and more horror stories from people that lost all their assets due to a lost password or stolen keys started to appear in common press, like the Guardian. Though we’ve all been...
Keylogger Definition, Detection, and Protection
There are hundreds, if not thousands, types of malware spread online. Out of them all, keyloggers can legitimately be considered the worst. We are not being dramatic here. If you get infected with a keylogger virus you basically show the hackers everything typed on the keyboard. Passwords, credit card credentials, messages, everything you search for, all of it gets to be exposed and easily stolen. Read on to learn: the keystroke...