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CISO-in-a-Box

Use MFA, Dammit!

I could say, "That's it.  That's the post."  But I won't leave it at that.  I will elaborate, because I feel I owe everyone a logical explanation of what MFA is, why it's so important, and how to do it right.   MFA stands for Multi-Factor…

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CISO-in-a-Box

April Fool?

It's an established fact that any headline in the form of a yes/no question can safely be answered, "no." And so it is with today's post, as you will see. One of the things we humans have to watch out for is, who can use…

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CISO-in-a-Box

Whose Net? Our Net!

On Dec 14 the FCC carried out its corporate masters' plan to gut net neutrality, responding to millions of astroturfed "comments" from dead people, etc. This action made the work of the Electronic Frontier Foundation all the more critical. On Feb 7, one of the…

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