Password security has been a hot topic since the Internet’s inception. Once upon a time, securing your accounts was as simple as not setting your password as “password.” Now, there can’t be talk about password security without multi-factor authentication (MFA) and how it has become a critical solution to protect users, data, networks, and more. WatchGuard and Miercom, an independent organization focused on product testing, have worked together on testing three MFA solutions and assessing performance in user and admin experiences.

This week on the podcast we review our time at this year's Black Hat and Def Con cybersecurity conferences in Las Vegas. We'll cover how the WatchGuard CTF contest went this year and discuss takeaways from a few of the briefings we attended. The 443 Security Simplified is a weekly podcast that gets inside the minds of leading white-hat hackers and security researchers, covering the latest cybersecurity headlines and trends.

Cybersecurity is now a shared responsibility. Along with a strong IT infrastructure that protects users, environments, and data, it is also essential to foster a culture of security among employees and active users to keep organizations breach-free. In this webinar, we come back to the basic elements of cybersecurity and review the principles of security and the key practices that need to be adopted in every organization, regardless of size. Join us the discussion, which will cover.

This week on the podcast, we discuss the current cyber skills gab and a federal program designed to help combat it. After that, we dive in to the American Data Privacy protection Act and what it potentially means if passed by US Congress. We end this week with a quick update on Microsoft's attempts to protect users from malicious macro-enabled documents. The 443 Security Simplified is a weekly podcast that gets inside the minds of leading white-hat hackers and security researchers, covering the latest cybersecurity headlines and trends.

This week on the podcast we cover the latest in car hacking research, this time targeting vulnerabilities in remote keyless entry. We then dive in to Microsoft's latest research on Adversary in the Middle (AitM) attacks and end with key findings from the latest WatchGuard Threat Lab quarterly Internet Security Report. The 443 Security Simplified is a weekly podcast that gets inside the minds of leading white-hat hackers and security researchers, covering the latest cybersecurity headlines and trends.

Join WatchGuard CSO Corey Nachreiner and Security Engineer Trevor Collins as they cover the latest Internet Security Report from the WatchGuard Threat Lab. In this session, Corey and Trevor will dive into the attack trends and latest malware variants targeting WatchGuard Firebox and Endpoint customers worldwide.

WatchGuard for SOCs and its portfolio of solutions and managed services help organizations and their service providers to develop and automate their advanced security programs, augmenting their security teams with experience, technologies, and processes that allow them to detect, contain and efficiently respond to attackers on the network.

Sandy Gill, Managing Director at Vector Capital, a leading private equity firm specializing in transformational investments in established technology businesses, talks about Vector acquiring majority ownership of WatchGuard Technologies, and why the company is uniquely positioned to take advantage of two major market forces – the rise of the MSP as the dominant and fastest growing source of cybersecurity, and the maturation of platform-based security offerings.

WatchGuard for SOCs and its portfolio of solutions and managed services help organizations and their service providers to develop and automate their advanced security programs, augmenting their security teams with experience, technologies, and processes that allow them to detect, contain and efficiently respond to attackers on the network.

Salesforce started enforcing the use of multi-factor authentication since February 1st 2022, and they will be auto-enabling it as well. Companies using Salesforce should make sure they implement MFA with the right methods in order to comply with contractual obligations, but also to protect against attacks using stolen credentials.