The internet and mobility have made enterprise security monumentally more difficult. Employees can take mobile devices with them everywhere they go, but these smartphones, tablets, and notebooks vary wildly in terms of security features to prevent unauthorized access. Increasing numbers of endpoints became convenient targets of hackers looking to gain access to enterprise data. Many major hacks in the last few years targeted user endpoints, and the scope and pace of these attacks is growing. Hardened multi-factor authentication (MFA) is becoming a requirement to protect these users and the endpoints they control from attacks using stolen credentials. Intel’s newly-announced Authenticate supports hardened multi-factor authentication.
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Table of Contents
- Summary
- Recent Endpoint Hacks Have Unprecedented Consequences
- Trends in Security & How to Combat New Threats
- Windows 10 Helps Make Enterprise PCs More Secure
- Not all Multi-Factor Authentication is the Same
- Solutions Like Intel Authenticate are More Reliable & Secure
- PCs With Single-Factor Authentication are a Vulnerability
- Call to Action
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Patrick Moorhead is the founder, CEO, and chief analyst of Moor Insights & Strategy. His big-picture view of technology is grounded in more than 20 years as an executive leading strategy, product management, product marketing, and corporate marketing functions at NCR, AT&T, Compaq, and AMD. He has shared his expertise in areas from silicon to infrastructure to enterprise SaaS and everything in-between in thousands of national broadcast appearances (CNBC, Yahoo Finance), articles (Forbes, CIO), research-based analyses, and podcast episodes. Today, he has 100+ CXO-level advisory clients and is often ranked the #1 technology industry analyst by ARInsights.
