Security Break Live» password security http://www.securitybreaklive.com IT Security Investigations and Insights by Steve Dispensa Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:14:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 April 23rd: The Perpetual Password Threat (part 2) – Live from RSA http://www.securitybreaklive.com/april-23rd-perpetual-password-threat-part-2-live-rsa.html http://www.securitybreaklive.com/april-23rd-perpetual-password-threat-part-2-live-rsa.html#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:04:49 +0000 sarahfender http://www.securitybreaklive.com/?p=118 Passwords are far from perfect. In fact, they perhaps lull our end-users into a false sense of protection which can be more dangerous than no password at all. For the average user vigilance stops once that password is entered. But the bad guys can get to your users’ passwords to do all sorts of terrible things that damage not only your clients, customers, and employees, but also your network integrity as a whole – not to mention your reputation.

This episode is the second in our two-part series, The Perpetual Password Threat. In the first installment we talked about why passwords really don’t work and how you can make your company more secure. This time Steve and co-host Derek Brink, Vice President & Research Fellow at the Aberdeen Group, dive into the really sinister attacks that we need to protect against.

This special episode will air live from the RSA conference floor (booth 233) in San Francisco where the leaders in IT security are talking about the most cutting-edge methodologies to protect ourselves from these unknown assailants.

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]]> http://www.securitybreaklive.com/april-23rd-perpetual-password-threat-part-2-live-rsa.html/feed 0 April 10th: The Perpetual Password Threat (part 1) http://www.securitybreaklive.com/april-10th-perpetual-password-threat-part-1.html http://www.securitybreaklive.com/april-10th-perpetual-password-threat-part-1.html#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:04:01 +0000 sarahfender http://www.securitybreaklive.com/?p=115 Think your passwords offer protection from hackers? Think again. You know your passwords are the key to your kingdom. You know you’re doing something to protect them. But chances are it’s not nearly enough. On Friday, April 10th, join Steve Dispensa and co-host Dan Costa, executive editor at PCMag.com, as they take on the password security challenge.

This episode will be the first of a 2-part series: The Perpetual Password Threat. There are so many types of passwords attacks now, we couldn’t cover it in just one show.

Dispensa and Costa will kick off the series talking about why password quality is still terrible, why passwords are easy to intercept, and how easy they are to abuse. By the time they’ve told you the straight story on why passwords just don’t work and discuss approaches to make your company safer, you’ll be on red alert for other sinister attacks and their solutions. That’s coming up on the 2nd episode which will air live from the RSA conference in San Francisco on Thursday, April 24th. There Steve and his co-host will take on extremely sinister approaches to passwords: how to crack them, how to steal them with Man-in-the-Middle attacks, and how to protect them with two-factor authentication. Don’t miss this series!

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