Month: March 2019

The Ping: 2FA

March 19, 2019 Corie Bogan Leave a comment BUSINESS CONTINUITY, business management, compliance, planning, safety, Security, smart devices, The Ping, update, vulnerability

So you might have heard the buzzwords “2FA” or “Multi-factor Authentication” thrown around a lot lately. The use of 2FA has become increasingly popular over the last few years. Apple has started prompting their users to activate this more advanced form of security. Your child’s Xbox Live account is now also prompting them to activate and use 2FA. Software you use at work, particularly credit card processing software, may also require card access or a 6 digit code. So that begs the question: what is multi-factor authentication?

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The Ping: Email Security

March 8, 2019 Corie Bogan Leave a comment cloud, desktop, internet, network, safety, Security, The Ping, vulnerability

How Does Email Work?

Creating and sending an email may seem like a magical process that happens all on its own, but it’s actually a little more complicated than that. So how does it work? To get an email to your intended recipient, you send an email from your server to their server via the internet. This is done using SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). Seems simple, right? It doesn’t stop there. In order to ensure the safety of that email’s contents, your everyday applications use TLS (Transport Layer Security) to send that email securely across the network.

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