As threats to password security have increased in recent years, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has rapidly gained popularity as a method for increasing the assurance of authentication for federal government networks and applications. MFA is important, as it hardens the cybersecurity…
5 Zero Trust Best Practices for Federal Government Networks
For federal government agencies who are beginning to implement zero trust cybersecurity frameworks for their IT networks, it is critical to understand that the architecture should be based on the idea of “never trust, always verify.” This means that every…
9 reasons why federal government agencies need identity governance and administration
This article originally appeared on One Identity by Quest’s official blog, here. While government agency networks continue to grow and increase their number of network users, access points, permissions, and privileges, their cyberattack surfaces are inevitably going to expand alongside…
Five Steps for Embracing Least Privilege in Your Organization
Recently, this publication shared four benefits of a least privilege approach to security and explained why least privilege is an important part of network security. The importance of this approach is hard to overstate but it bears repeating that as…
