"97% of companies have data leaks and other security incidents exposed on the Dark Web" - Bold claims. Do you have any proof of this? Such as redacted screenshots or examples of these leaks?
The article shows lots of stats, but no real evidence.
The article shows lots of stats, but no real evidence.
It looks like FUD, it sounds like FUD, then in my books, it is FUD. Fortunately it is easy to get out of infosec meetings that blather on with these generic statements while working from home. No awkward walking out of the room.
I'm not connived that every name in a data dump indicates a breach at a given company.
My thinking:
If someone gets a hold of a huge list of usersnaems and passwords from bobcompany.com, and then spams numerous sites with those logins to see if they work elsewhere ... and finds that a few work on joecompany.com then puts out that data.... joecompany.com might have their name listed somewhere in someone's data dump, but they didn't have a breach...
Every work email address I've ever had has been a part of at least one breach according to haveibeenpwned. None of them are specific to the companies I've worked for. If they count things like the Exactis breach, they'll likely pick up every company that existed prior to that breach.
It doesn’t, the article is marketing bullshit trying to push an dark web monitoring service.
That’s not to say you’d never be interested in these breaches: if joecompany has employees who reuse or iterate (Summer2020 -> Fall2020) their passwords, a breach at bobcompany that includes joecompany employees could give an attacker their first valid login.
You need to do MFA for everything that matters. Passwords are crap, you may not be able to mandate that your customers start caring about that (though you should offer them better alternatives) but you can enforce it for your employees.
Require WebAuthn everywhere. Issue employees a suitable authenticator if they don't have one (iOS 14 will make newer iPhones a suitable device, high end Android phones are also suitable) and avoid mechanisms to let an employee subvert this requirement. Now you literally don't care if your employees choose crappy passwords (which they will) because it has no security impact.
When MFA is in place you still have to keep loopholes in mind, things I’ve seen recently at various companies include a user blindly approving Duo prompts and letting an attacker on to the VPN, a Fortinet appliance that was supposed to be decommissioned a year ago that wasn’t, allowing an attacker to log in with credentials stolen previously, and legacy HTTP basic auth in Office 365, which bypasses MFA unless it’s disabled.
Sure, one of the reasons I specified WebAuthn is that intuitive security properties tie up better. Users have seen keys before, if I give Bob this Security Key, obviously Bob can unlock the same things as I could with the Security Key. Whereas a lot of these other technologies are a bit abstract - I should fill this six digit code into this web site but not any other web site? The phone might give me a Duo prompt out of the blue but I shouldn't say yes?
Actually WebAuthn's Security Keys have behaviour that matches people's intuitive understanding of actual keys somewhat better than the actual keys do. If I examine the lock I can make a key for it! If I see one key, I can use that to make more keys that all work! These are properties of real mechanical keys that surprise users but aren't present in WebAuthn's Security Keys.