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Roundtable Part 3: Passwordless Building Blocks

The session features host and Mobile Mentor Founder, Denis O’Shea, Yubico Solutions Engineer, Shakeel Aziz, Microsoft Cloud Endpoint Technical Specialist, Nick Cordova, and Mobile Mentor Digital Identity Lead, Demetrius Cooper. During the conversation, the group discusses change management, biometrics, security keys, single sign-on, and multi-factor authentication.   Click Here to Watch the [...]

October 17th, 2022|

Roundtable Part 2: A Critical Look at Industry Standards for Passwordless Authentication

The session features host and Mobile Mentor Founder, Denis O’Shea, Yubico Solutions Engineer, Shakeel Aziz, Microsoft Cloud Endpoint Technical Specialist, Nick Cordova, and Mobile Mentor Digital Identity Lead, Demetrius Cooper. During the conversation, the group discusses the history of authentication practices including the two-factor authentication solution, FIDO U2F, and the passwordless authentication protocol, FIDO2. [...]

October 17th, 2022|

Roundtable Part 1: The Problem with Passwords

An in-depth discussion on the pervasive issues with passwords and the road to passwordless authentication. The session features host and Mobile Mentor Founder, Denis O’Shea, Yubico Solutions Engineer, Shakeel Aziz, Microsoft Cloud Endpoint Technical Specialist, Nick Cordova, and Mobile Mentor Digital Identity Lead, Demetrius Cooper. During the conversation, the group discusses the downfalls of password [...]

October 17th, 2022|

Best Practices for Remote IT Support

      In an ever-evolving cyber landscape, it is critical that companies’ IT support meets the needs of the modern worker. In recent years, hybrid and remote work has become increasingly commonplace in a majority of businesses. We’ve swiftly witnessed the demise of the days when employees could simply drop by the desks [...]

October 11th, 2022|

Mobile Mentor Featured on “A Geek Leader Podcast”

A Geek Leader Podcast host, John Rouda, and Mobile Mentor Founder, Denis O’Shea, sit down and discuss cyber security in 2022 and beyond. In the conversation, John and Denis address a multitude of topics surrounding modern work and modern security practices. The two deep dive into Zero Trust, hybrid work, endpoint management, digital identity, [...]

October 4th, 2022|

What Is Multi-Factor Authentication and Why Is It So Important?

    In IT security circles, there is a common school of thought that you must accept some risk when protecting your environment. Try as you may, vulnerabilities will always exist. However, adding layers of security components allow you to drastically reduce the risk of a compromise. Multi-factor Authentication does just that, it provides [...]

October 4th, 2022|

Microsoft and Mobile Mentor Team Up to Tell the Story of Zero Trust and the Endpoint Ecosystem

As part of Microsoft’s “Zero Trust: Going Beyond the Why” series of digital events, Mobile Mentor Founder, Denis O’Shea, sits down with Microsoft’s Security Product Manager, Daniel Gottfried, to discuss the importance of providing a great employee experience for companies adopting Zero Trust. The two discuss the remote transformation of the workplace since the start [...]

September 26th, 2022|

Understanding Authentication and Authorization

  Authorization and Authentication both play a crucial role in securing our digital identities. The two measures go hand-in-hand in terms of allowing individuals access to an environment and permitting access to specific resources within that environment. In the article below, we aim to distinguish the two and explain how they work in tandem [...]

September 17th, 2022|

What is Digital Identity and How Does it Work?

  Digital identity is a concept that is often brought up in IT circles and it is a crucial component of modern cybersecurity architecture. The term “digital identity”, however, is enigmatic to many as it is so complex. In the article below, we will aim to define digital identity, identify the origin of where [...]

September 12th, 2022|

Mobile Mentor Featured on the Cyber Pro Podcast

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4tJR4i1day8W8QJtWgH1IO/ Mobile Mentor Founder, Denis O’Shea, answers five questions in nine minutes pertaining to modern cyber security strategies on the Cyber Pro Podcast. In the episode, Denis talks about finding the right balance between employee experience and security in the post-pandemic hybrid workforce. He expounds by discussing the data found in the 2022 Endpoint [...]

September 6th, 2022|
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