­Multi-Factor Authentication: When Usernames and Passwords Just Aren’t Enough

Using a username and password combination is a common, modern everyday activity. We use it to log into a desktop or laptop at work, we log into various application systems to perform business tasks or we log into Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications remotely. For personal endeavors we use username/password combinations for Facebook, Flickr or other social media websites. The username and password authentication is generally “good enough” for these scenarios.

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Success Beyond A Super Bowl Ring, Lessons from IAUG Converge 2015

It doesn’t matter if you work on a football field, a boardroom, cubicle or call center, each member of the team—from the CEO to the mailroom clerk—plays a vital role in an organization’s success each day, according to Joe Theismann, former quarterback for the Washington Redskins, Super Bowl XVII ring holder and International Avaya Users Group (IAUG) Converge 2015 keynote speaker.

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Security+ Question of the Week: DoS Tool

You have become aware of a DoS tool that targets your public Web site which is co‐located at an ISP rather than in a DMZ off of your intranet. This DoS tool is present on numerous systems across the Internet, but it has also been discovered on a few intranet clients as well. After analyzing traffic captures, you discover that the DoS tool spoofs its source address in the 10.233.43.10‐50 range. Why is your Web server not being affected by this DoS traffic?

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