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Untapped security potential

So, with FIDO2 - an open authentication standard - that’s supposed to be open and accessible to anyone,
is there still a problem? Why are all companies not yet phishing-proof? Why is social engineering still the
case?

Implementation is still the biggest problem. MFA implementation is complex, burdensome, and
expensive. Moreover, if a company has hundreds of applications in its organization, mass implementation
of all applications is practically impossible. Effect? One of the best authentication methods, the FIDO2
standard - although designed in April 2018 - is still an addition, not a universal way of securing your
identity on the Internet after more than four years.

- We hope that thanks to Secfense, we will be able to change this situation. Our goal was and is to open
the path to the mass use of MFA in business and to use the strongest FIDO2 standard for this purpose -
says Tomasz Kowalski.

An important advantage of the Secfense broker - also strongly noticed at the Authenticate 2022
conference, held in October in Seattle, is that it enables the introduction of FIDO2-based MFA without
the cost of hiring developers, without the cost of purchasing dongles and without any impact on the
smoothness of operations.

The sooner the companies will introduce FIDO2 authentication globally the sooner the world will be able
to move away from passwords. It is possible to eradicate passwords and phishing-based attacks once
and for all. It will take time but it is possible. At Secfense we believe that the user access security broker
approach to the adoption of strong authentication methods can play a big role in this transition.

About the Author

Tomasz Kowalski is a CEO and Co-Founder of Secfense. He has
nearly 20 years of experience in the sale of IT technology. He was
involved in hundreds of hardware and software implementations in
large and medium-sized companies from the finance
telecommunication, industry and military sectors. Tomasz can be
reached online at ([email protected], Tomasz Kowalski |
LinkedIn) and at our company website https://secfense.com/

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