LuxSci adds new technologies to protect your account from social engineering during support phone calls and chats.
One of the biggest threats to your company’s security, its human error. Phishing attacks where people send email messages reporting to be from trusted sites that users click on and give away information. That’s the biggest threat. But what about social engineering?
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LuxSci now supports Google Authenticator for Two-Factor authentication to WebMail. Setup is simple; this video walks you through setting it up.
Back in 2011, LuxSci integrated Duo.com‘s advanced two-factor authentication into our WebMail service. Any LuxSci customer can use Duo.com to protect their WebMail, as well as their admin access to LuxSci. This all comes at no extra cost.
We even use Duo’s authentication ourselves. It’s great for administrative actions both at the server command line and through the web interface. An advanced two-factor authentication system such as Duo.com is excellent for enhancing a system’s security. It is a requirement for PCI compliance and can be helpful for HIPAA compliance as well.
The new Duo Access service is an innovative way to enforce corporate security policies, helping businesses to drastically cut their risks. Duo’s Jim Simpson has taken some time out of his schedule to answer some questions for us and discuss the details of their service.
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Two-Factor Authentication (supposedly patented by Kim DotCom)– using a password plus “something else” to gain access to your account and to prevent lost, stolen, or guessed passwords from impacting you — is finally becoming fashionable.
First, it was a cool idea, then some places such as LuxSci started supporting it, but it was rarely used due to people not wanting to bother with an extra step to login to their accounts. Now, with Twitter adding 2-factor authentication to help stem the tide of account compromises, security is now fashionable.
This turn about is really fantastic as it brings security consciousness much more into the mainstream — so much so that popular Radio hosts are talking on the air about how to secure accounts. This can only be good for the adoption of better security practices overall and a decrease in compromises due to laziness … and in cases like HIPAA, laziness can be a terrible thing.
In this post, we’ll go over how to secure your LuxSci account against intrusion using Two Factor authentication and other methods.
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Large companies seem to be losing user passwords to hackers at an ever increasing rate. Just recently:
The list goes on and on – it’s likely that you or someone you know was affected by one or more of these issues. So, what can you do to protect yourself?
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