Beers with Talos Ep. #99: P@ssw0rds and closing out 2020
Summary: Cisco Talos released episode No. 99 of the Beers with Talos podcast, recorded in late November 2020, featuring Craig Williams and Matt Olney with Mitch Neff hosting. The episode covers passwords and how they are used in practice, best practices to share, and MFA, including SMS as an option of last resort.
What you should know: The episode's own framing is that passwords are not inherently the problem - how they are used is - and it treats SMS-based MFA as a last resort, a distinction worth checking against how your own authentication stack is layered.
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