Category: The Duo Blog

Passwordless Authentication, This is the Way

Read the original article: Passwordless Authentication, This is the Way Security leaders the world over tend to share many, if not all, of the same issues in their respective organizations. From having to deal with patching, firewalls, network zone segmentation…

The CARES Grant: Don’t Leave Money on the Table

Read the original article: The CARES Grant: Don’t Leave Money on the Table Security leaders are always on the lookout for funding sources to support their security programs. Often, security budgets are constrained to an unacceptable degree — and getting…

Duo’s Object Oriented UX (OOUX) Design Process

Read the original article: Duo’s Object Oriented UX (OOUX) Design Process The number one enemy of security is complexity. This is a value we hold true at Duo during our product development process. Yet, we know that complexity is a…

The Zero-Trust Approach to Important Control Planes

Read the original article: The Zero-Trust Approach to Important Control Planes Although zero trust  as a concept has been around for over 10 years, it is only recently that it has been recognized and accepted as a leading strategy for…

(VIDEO) Getting Started With Duo – Step 1: Authentication Methods

Read the original article: (VIDEO) Getting Started With Duo – Step 1: Authentication Methods Duo’s two-factor authentication (2FA)/multi-factor authentication (MFA) offers several methods through which users can verify their identity before being granted access to applications. Those methods include push notifications,…

How a Popular Company Could’ve Prevented a Phishing Attack

Read the original article: How a Popular Company Could’ve Prevented a Phishing Attack The first known mention of the word “phishing” happened in the America Online (AOL) user group named appropriately “AOHell.” Phishing has raised hell ever since. As technology…

Celebrating Black Pioneers of Technology

Read the original article: Celebrating Black Pioneers of Technology We are celebrating Black History Month (BHM) all month long on Instagram! Join us and follow along as we post trivia, videos and intriguing facts to celebrate Black History Month. Like this…

Zero Trust Meets OS Patch Management

Read the original article: Zero Trust Meets OS Patch Management We are always facing new vulnerabilities in our software, especially in operating systems in the EU and worldwide. Apple issued a security update release for iOS 14.4 recently, as a…

Celebrating Black History Month on Insta

Read the original article: Celebrating Black History Month on Insta It has been a year for change and social justice. At Duo we care a lot about these things. In fact, did you know Duo has an Instagram account? We…

How To Secure Remote Access Right Now

Read the original article: How To Secure Remote Access Right Now Times have changed and the need to provide secure remote access has gone from a nice to have perk for a few remote workers to an all encompassing need…

Second-Guessing the CISO in an Emergency

Read the original article: Second-Guessing the CISO in an Emergency Don’t do it. Look, I know it’s personally gratifying, but just don’t do it. It’s easy to look at what appears to be a badly secured situation and say, “Why…

What To Do if You Must Use SMS

Read the original article: What To Do if You Must Use SMS There are many known risks in life that you simply can’t get rid of altogether.  Despite everything we know about the risk of SIM hijacking as a vector…

What To Do if You Must Use SMS

Read the original article: What To Do if You Must Use SMS There are many known risks in life that you simply can’t get rid of altogether.  Despite everything we know about the risk of SIM hijacking as a vector…

Future Forward: Cybersecurity 2021 Predictions

Read the original article: Future Forward: Cybersecurity 2021 Predictions It’s 2021. Where is my encryption-breaking dolphin? I admit it. I watched Johnny Mnemonic. It is set in 2021, after all. I wager, there was no better way to prepare for…

Cloud and Remote App Access Climbs Skyward

Read the original article: Cloud and Remote App Access Climbs Skyward The 2020 Duo Trusted Access Report shows a significant increase in year over year growth in remote access and the use of cloud applications. Cloud applications are more flexible,…

Farewell Flash, Forevermore

Read the original article: Farewell Flash, Forevermore Dear Flash, You helped us get our coding legs with Dreamweaver on sites like MySpace and the early web, but you were easily overtaken and hackable. The security and performance holes in your…

Cybersecurity Things to Celebrate in 2020

Read the original article: Cybersecurity Things to Celebrate in 2020 As another calendar year comes to a close it is a time for reflection on the year past and predictions for the year to come. I think we can all…

Why Are More Industries Switching From SMS 2FA to Push?

Read the original article: Why Are More Industries Switching From SMS 2FA to Push? Users and industries are moving away from unsafe SMS-based authentication methods, according to Duo’s hot of the press 2020 Duo Trusted Access Report. And Push continues…

#WeAreDuo Employee Spotlight with Swetha Amruthur

Read the original article: #WeAreDuo Employee Spotlight with Swetha Amruthur Swetha Amruthur Have you ever wondered what life at Duo is like? Or what it’s like to be an Engineer, Product Designer or Account Executive Duo? How current employees landed…

When the EMEA Duo Partner Kick-Off Goes Virtual

Read the original article: When the EMEA Duo Partner Kick-Off Goes Virtual It’s 2019, we have just finished the last group karaoke sing-a-long to Toto’s “Africa” and said farewell to all of our amazing partners that attended our last partner…

A Truly Universal Prompt: Accessibility for All

Read the original article: A Truly Universal Prompt: Accessibility for All At Duo we like to make the right thing to do, the easy thing to do. Duo recently announced that we’re simplifying our multi-factor authentication experience by building our…

#WeAreDuo Employee Spotlight with Jordan Wray

Read the original article: #WeAreDuo Employee Spotlight with Jordan Wray Jordan Wray Have you ever wondered what life at Duo is like? Or what it’s like to be an Engineer, Product Designer or Account Executive Duo? How current employees landed…

My Journey from Engineer to AppSec

Read the original article: My Journey from Engineer to AppSec How Did You Make a Career Change? I can remember the first time I got into programming. My family got an Apple IIe and I taught myself BASIC so I…

How 2FA Can Help Tesla Cars Stay Secure

Read the original article: How 2FA Can Help Tesla Cars Stay Secure There is no denying that the era of electric vehicles is upon us. These vehicles become evermore capable with new features and improvements being delivered via over the…

WEBINAR: 4 Election Security Educators Walk Into a Panel

Read the original article: WEBINAR: 4 Election Security Educators Walk Into a Panel What happens when four election security specialists gather together to talk shop? They dispel myths, share deep knowledge, and bring clarity to the state of our elections.…

How to Secure Your Amazon Account With Duo 2FA

Read the original article: How to Secure Your Amazon Account With Duo 2FA Secure Your Amazon Account You have upped your Amazon game and find that you are ordering more and more things online from groceries to gifts, when suddenly…

How to Secure Your Amazon Account With Duo 2FA

Read the original article: How to Secure Your Amazon Account With Duo 2FA Secure Your Amazon Account You have upped your Amazon game and find that you are ordering more and more things online from groceries to gifts, when suddenly…

#WeAreDuo Employee Spotlight with Laura O’Melia

Read the original article: #WeAreDuo Employee Spotlight with Laura O’Melia Have you ever wondered what life at Duo is like? Or what it’s like to be an Engineer, Product Designer, Account Executive etc. at Duo? How current employees landed their…

#WeAreDuo Employee Spotlight with Laura O’Melia

Read the original article: #WeAreDuo Employee Spotlight with Laura O’Melia Have you ever wondered what life at Duo is like? Or what it’s like to be an Engineer, Product Designer, Account Executive etc. at Duo? How current employees landed their…

Zero Trust Is So Last Year…or Is It?

Read the original article: Zero Trust Is So Last Year…or Is It? I have two wonderful, intelligent, strong-willed and outspoken children. I wouldn’t trade them for the world. Some days when I think I have finally figured them out and…

Keep Calm and Secure the Remote Workforce

Read the original article: Keep Calm and Secure the Remote Workforce “Digital transformation has been forced upon every company that has any sort of digital workforce. We’ve seen a tremendous rush for companies to figure out how they get every…

#WeAreDuo Employee Spotlight with Kim Driscoll

Read the original article: #WeAreDuo Employee Spotlight with Kim Driscoll Have you ever wondered what life at Duo is like? Or what it’s like to be an Engineer, Product Designer, Account Executive etc. at Duo? How current employees landed their…

Federal Zero Trust, Identity Assurance, and the Red Queen

Read the original article: Federal Zero Trust, Identity Assurance, and the Red Queen With the release of NIST SP 800-207, many cyber security professionals are reviewing their environments, and examining how Zero Trust principles and practices can enhance and aid…

The Passwordless Journey Roadmap for Federal

Read the original article: The Passwordless Journey Roadmap for Federal It’s often said that technology deployments for federal agencies are a different animal. In fact, usually, that is not the case. Government agencies have the same needs, the same use…

“Duo &” – The Power of Great Combinations

Read the original article: “Duo &” – The Power of Great Combinations My History When I started my career at Duo back in 2015, I was amazed how the product disrupted the strong authentication marketplace. My main job was to…

5 Tips For Optimizing Duo Cloud Operations

Read the original article: 5 Tips For Optimizing Duo Cloud Operations Cloud operations is a critical component to “keep the lights on” for any deployment, this also applies to software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions. As a service owner, you might apply IT…

How Phishing Impacts Healthcare

Read the original article: How Phishing Impacts Healthcare It was a murky morning in mid-March 2020 at around 5 a.m. local time when the public announcement system at Brno University Hospital in the Czech Republic started to repeat an unusual…

Providing a Passwordless User Experience

Read the original article: Providing a Passwordless User Experience Take a moment and remember your first time online, or perhaps your first time on a terminal. All that promise at your fingertips. You’re prompted for a password. Your first password.…

Providing a Passwordless User Experience

Read the original article: Providing a Passwordless User Experience Take a moment and remember your first time online, or perhaps your first time on a terminal. All that promise at your fingertips. You’re prompted for a password. Your first password.…

Can Passwordless Authentication Be Trusted?

Read the original article: Can Passwordless Authentication Be Trusted? Every new feature we introduce to our users is potentially a new tactic we provide our adversaries. When I was learning to drive, this happened with car steering wheel locks. Do…

Can Passwordless Authentication Be Trusted?

Read the original article: Can Passwordless Authentication Be Trusted? Every new feature we introduce to our users is potentially a new tactic we provide our adversaries. When I was learning to drive, this happened with the car steering wheel locks.…

VIDEO: Instantly Restore Accounts on Your New Phone!

Read the original article: VIDEO: Instantly Restore Accounts on Your New Phone! See the video at the blog post. We’re excited to announce that we are bringing Instant Restore to Android! This is a feature we launched earlier this year…

Instantly Restore Accounts on Your New Phone!

Read the original article: Instantly Restore Accounts on Your New Phone! We’re excited to announce that we are bringing Instant Restore to Android! This is a feature we launched earlier this year on iOS that makes changing phones easier than…

#WeAreDuo Employee Spotlight with Glenn Stempeck

Read the original article: #WeAreDuo Employee Spotlight with Glenn Stempeck Have you ever wondered what life at Duo is like? Or what it’s like to be an Engineer, Product Designer, Account Executive etc. at Duo? How current employees landed their…