Nancy Hammond

Customer acquisition is the process of attracting potential customers and keeping them interested long enough to sign up for an account and become loyal customers. But if your registration process is time-consuming and complex, your potential customer may get frustrated and abandon your site – even if they love your product or service. So where will they go when they leave? They’ll most likely head to a competitor ...

Continuous authentication solutions, which re-authenticate users throughout an online session, are designed to be one of the most secure authentication methods available today. From login to logout, continuous authentication monitors biometric, behavioral, and context-based data in real time to continually confirm the user’s identity and flag anomalies. If the user is idle or the system detects a change to pre-determined user patterns, the account is blocked or the user is forced to re-authenticate.

Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) is a challenge-response identity authentication protocol. It depends on a combination of CHAP security credentials and a “shared secret” between the requestor (client) and the authenticator (server), and it does not expose a password. It requires both entities to prove their identity through a cryptographic exchange or a “three-way handshake”. When that is successful, authentication is complete ...

You may have heard about zero-day exploits, but what are they, and why do they occur? An attack begins with a vulnerability that the manufacturer or vendor doesn’t know about. This flaw can be in software programs, operating systems, hardware devices, connected services, IoT devices, and more. When exploited by a hacker, these weaknesses can cause major problems for individuals and large corporations...

Kerberos is a passwordless computer network security authentication protocol that was created by MIT to help solve network security problems.

Keylogger software is a type of surveillance technology that is installed directly on your computer or device.

Like many programming languages, structured query language (SQL) is vulnerable to manipulation and abuse by hackers.

Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) is a fairly new threat in cybersecurity.