I am very excited to announce that 1Kosmos is an official AWS Cognito Passwordless MFA partner.
Amazon Cognito places the utmost importance on online account security. To bolster the protection ...
PCI DSS version 4.0 is the latest iteration of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, released on March 31, 2022, and is currently in effect. The previous version, PCI DSS version 3.2.1,...
Are You Ready for PCI DSS Version 4.0?
In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, it's crucial to stay up to date with the latest innovations and technologies designed to enhance online security. One such innovation that has gaine...
Demystifying Passkeys: A Future of Passwordless Authentication
Introduction
Traditional password-based authentication techniques are vulnerable to online attacks. Fortunately, a ground-breaking remedy called an identity-based passwordless authentication syste...
Defending Your Online Presence: Identity-Based Passwordless Authentication
Introduction
The digital transformation sweeping across the business landscape has made efficiency and security two sides of the same coin. User provisioning stands at this crossroads, orchestrati...
User Provisioning: The Key to Unlocking Seamless Workflow
Introduction
Cybersecurity is no longer just about setting a strong password or having an encrypted connection. As digital threats have evolved, so too have the mechanisms to counteract them. Cont...
Continuous Authentication: A Dynamic Approach to User Verification
Michael Cichon:
Well, hello everybody. This is Michael Cichon, chief Marketing Officer at 1Kosmos. I'm here today with our VP of solutions, Vik Subramanian.
Vik, welcome to the vlog. It's good ...
Vlog: Making the Most of Your Windows Hello Investment
Join Michael Cichon, CMO of 1Kosmos, and Mike Engle, CSO, as they discuss the journey to passwordless multifactor authentication in their insightful vlog. Discover the nuances between the passwordl...
Vlog: Overcoming Resistance to Change on the Journey to Passwordless MFA
Earlier this month, Verizon released its Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). In this 16th year of the report, Verizon highlighted their analysis of more than 953,894 incidents, of which 254,9...
Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2023
What Are Login Credentials?
Login credentials are unique pieces of information that verify the identity of a user accessing a digital system.
How Do Login Credentials Work?
The functionality of...
What Are Login Credentials?
Many organizations are turning to passwordless authentication solutions to secure their systems and remove vulnerabilities from identity management.
Discover magic link authentication—a secure, ...
What Is Magic Link Authentication? Benefits & Challenges
Knowledge-Based Authentication (KBA), is a security measure used to verify a person's identity by asking them to provide specific information that only they should know.
How Does Knowledge-Based A...
Knowledge-Based Authentication (KBA) Explained
Secure remote access is a method that lets authorized users access a private network as if they were on-premises with that network.
This includes accessing systems, resources, and data the user ...
What Is Secure Remote Access? Risks, Benefits & Solutions
Liveness detection is a biometric authentication process that verifies whether the user is a live person or just a spoofed artifact. Liveness detection is crucial in preventing security breaches an...
What Is Liveness Detection? Preventing Biometric Spoofing
Network attacks, while not as common as other typical hacks, still pose a significant threat to a world of always-online business. Specifically, a network snooping attack like Man-in-the-Browser (M...
What Is a Man in the Browser (MitB) Attack? How To Prevent It?
Encryption is a crucial part of most security frameworks and a foundational component of data protection across all digital applications. AES encryption, in particular, is a cornerstone of modern d...
What Is AES Encryption? The Complete Guide
Authentication is a crucial part of any web application, as it verifies the identity of the user and controls access to protected resources. One popular authentication method is JSON Web Token (JWT...
What Is JWT Authentication? How Does It Work?
There are several ways that hackers can steal passwords, and even encrypted credentials might be vulnerable to attacks.
What Is a Rainbow Table Attack?
A rainbow table attack is a type of attack ...
What is a Rainbow Table Attack? How To Protect Against It?
Encryption is a foundational tool to secure data from unauthorized disclosure and protect privacy for users and businesses.
What is private key cryptography? It is a form of encryption that uses...
What Is a Private Key & How Does It Work?
Social engineering is still one of the most successful forms of attack in the wild, including various phishing attacks. One form of this threat, spear phishing, uses research and user targeting to ...
What Is Spear Phishing? [Examples & Prevention Techniques]
In today's terminally-online age, fraud is a growing and ever-present concern for businesses.
Why is fraud detection important? Because successful fraud attempts can cost businesses significantl...
What Is Fraud Detection? [Definition & Prevention]
In authentication security, passwords are often the weak link, susceptible to several attacks.
What is password cracking? Password cracking is the use of different attacks to guess or expose a p...
What Is Password Cracking?
What Is a Password Guessing Attack?
Hackers never rest, and this truth is nowhere more apparent than in the world of password security.
What is a password guessing attack? A password guessing a...
What Is a Password Guessing Attack?
Twitter is giving SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) the bird for all but its paid subscribers. But there's a simpler way to secure Twitter accounts without ruffling anyone's feathers.
In...