Intelligence tagged Bite-Sized Cyber Essentials

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are often presented as the ultimate tool for privacy and anonymity. But this is a strong misconception. Using a VPN does not guarantee protection from location tracking, social and web profiling, and most importantly, using a VPN does not guarantee anonymity.

Passwords have not gone away yet. Although there may be new forms of logging in, such as biometric logins, passwords still ultimately serve as our master key to sign in. This means we need to take better care of how we create, use, and store our passwords.

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is the process of having more than one form of authentication to ensure that if one methods is compromised, an attacker is still unable to access the account.