AWS is making multi-factor authentication (MFA) mandatory for privileged users, specifically management account root users and standalone account root users. Customers must enable MFA within a 30-day grace period to maintain account access.


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ComputerWeekly: Time to deploy strong authentication, says FIDO

In this ComputerWeekly story, FIDO Alliance CMO Andrew Shikiar explains that with the tools required…

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Threatpost: Threatpost Survey Says: 2FA is Just Fine, But Go Ahead and Kill SMS

In a Threatpost survey on two-factor authentication, 57% of respondents said hardware tokens like FIDO…

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The Parallax: Primer: How to lock your online accounts with a security key

This article in The Parallax reports that FIDO Security Keys, FIDO2 and WebAuthn are gaining…

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