Noted IT Security Guru John Pescatore Shares His Best Security Advice and Answers the Burning Questions of the Day
TENAFLY, N.J., April 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — securitycurrent, the news and information site for IT security professionals by IT security professionals, today announced the launch of a new column, "Ask Mr. Security Answer Person."
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In "Ask Mr. Security Answer Person," John Pescatore, securitycurrent key contributor and SANS Institute Director of Emerging Security Trends, takes a sardonic look at the top security, privacy and risk issues when answering questions posed by information security professionals.
Debuting today, Pescatore's question and answer column offers tongue in cheek, though practical, security advice for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and security practitioners who turn to securitycurrent in pursuit of informative and provocative information on their top security concerns.
Today's column answers a question on strong authentication that many CISOs will start to hear from their CEOs (and from their own spouses): "I use Tumblr to share animated .gifs of barbed wire fences on windy days, and Tumblr just notified me I could now use 'two factor' login with text messages to my iPhone, instead of my standby 'Password123' password. Twitter, Facebook and Google apps have all done the same thing, but at work I'm still using 'Password123' until they make me change it to 'Password234' and so on.
"What's up with that – are my barbed wire .gifs actually more of a target for hackers than our corporate systems??"
Click here for John's response.
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