Saw this acronym to describe the types of cyber threats and thought it was useful.
STRIDE
Spoofing - Falsifying identity to gain systems access
Tampering - Making unauthorized changes to data or systems
Repudiation - Forging identify of actions to data or system to deny responsibility or even blame a 3rd party
Information Disclosure - Stealing (exfiltrating) information and disclosing it to unauthorized individuals
Denial of Service - Depriving legitimate users access to data or systems
Elevation of Privilege - Transforming user account to allow it to exceed legitimate user privileges (e.g. admin account or superuser)
Funny-sad enough, these six types of cyber attacks can cause any information security officer to lose their stride. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal
Showing posts with label Identity Management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Identity Management. Show all posts
February 13, 2018
October 13, 2011
Increase Security On Your Google Account
After reading the article Hacked! in The Atlantic (November 2011), I looked into Google's new security feature called 2-Step Verification (a.k.a. Two Factor Authentication).
This new extra layer of security--adding "something you have" to "something you know"--to your sign in credentials helps to better protect you and your information in Google (i.e. in the Google cloud), including your emails, documents, and applications.
While a little extra work to login to Google--you have to type in a verification code that Google sends or calls to your phone (this is the something you have), it provides an extra layer of defense against hackers, criminals, and identity thieves.
To protect your Smartphone, Google provides "Application-specific passwords" that you generate from the 2-Step Verification screen and then you enter those into the specific iPhone, Droid, or Blackberry device.
You can sign up for 2-Step Verification from your Google Account Settings page and help protect yourself, your information, and your privacy.
In the future, I hope that Google (and other cloud vendors) will improve on this and use biometrics, to add "something you are," to the authentication process and make this even sleeker and more secure yet.
Stay safe out there! ;-)
Increase Security On Your Google Account
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