Password complexity is believed to increase security, but it can also motivate predictable password patterns. Passwords inspired by adjacent key movements, such as "qwerty" are extremely vulnerable. Read More
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MFA vs. 2FA – why the difference matters for your O365 implementation
When it comes to protecting cloud applications such as O365, two-factor authentication (2FA) has some serious limitations. A dynamic MFA solution frees users from passwords, and secures the authentication process. Read More
Why is Office 365 MFA important?
Office 365 is a hot target for attacks. Protecting organizational data in Office 365 comes down to preventing various attacks designed to gain access to user accounts. Read More
Press release: Block 1 billion leaked passwords with Specops Password Policy
IT departments can now use Specops Breached Password Protection, a hosted service with a continuously updated list of leaked passwords, to prevent users from utilizing high-risk passwords. Read More
What to expect during your next penetration test
For some businesses, vulnerability and penetration testing is a deeply-ingrained process that just works. However, for many others, this exercise is less known – arguably a mysterious, if not a downright scary aspect of running an information security program.... Read More
Press Release: Specops enables organizations to block leetspeak in passwords
Stockholm, Sweden – April 19, 2018. Specops Software announced today the release of Specops Password Policy 6.8. The release enables IT departments to prevent users from circumventing the password dictionary by using character substitutions, also known as leetspeak. Leetspeak... Read More
Confessions of an IT admin – O365 implementation experience
For its average user, over a 100 million of them, O365 equals seamless access to corporate data, and a ton of apps. For the IT administrator, it is a bigger attack surface, added complexities, and of course, a few... Read More
O365 attacks continue exploiting your weakest link
With more than 120 million active users, Office (O365) is a frontrunner in the cloud service popularity contest. Consequently, its users are equally popular with hackers. For IT pros, storing data in the cloud means a bigger attack surface,... Read More
Security questions – authenticating with your worst kept secrets
Knowledge based authentication (KBA) is a form of identity verification that asks users to answer a “secret” to prove their identity before accessing a system. Passwords and security questions are the most common forms of KBA. Their familiarity means... Read More
Press Release: Specops enables organizations to comply with password requirements from NIST and NCSC
Specops Software announced today the release of Specops Password Policy 6.7, which provides customers with a compromised password list to comply with requirements from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and National Centre of Cyber Security (NCSC).... Read More