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There has been a lot of news this week regarding the RSA breach in March, which has apparently led to an attack on defense contractor’s Lockheed Martin and L-3 Communications. Immediately following the negative press, RSA’s President Art Coviello issued an open letter stating that they have already reached out to “high risk” customers for remediation. For all other customers following best practice guidelines, RSA says they …

In March, when RSA announced that they experienced a network attack which may have compromised their multi factor authentication systems, it was the attack heard around the world. A few weeks later consumers received notices that email marketing firm Epsilon had also suffered a major breach to the customer information from companies like Chase Bank, Walgreens and …

Last week, RSA experienced an attack that has breached their system. Information about their multi-factor authentication products (SecurID, Authentication Manager) have been compromised. There’s not much information right now but this attack seems to be geared toward stealing intellectual property and does not affect any current or potential RSA customers. An open letter to customers …

A few weeks ago, I was reading through some discussions posted on LinkedIn. One that caught my eye was, “How long should my password be?” My first thought was, “Are people still talking about password lengths?” Passwords are intended to authorize users to access only what they need access to. We’ve had questions about passwords …

RSA has recently introduced a new platform for strong authentication, Authentication Manager Express. It’s getting a lot of much deserved press for being the first to market multifactor authentication perfect for small to medium-sized businesses. In fact, in an article in the MidMarket section of eWeek.com covering the release, our very own Justin Mescher was …