What is OWASP? What is the OWASP Top 10?
The Open Web Application Security Project maintains a regularly updated list of the most pressing security concerns. What is OWASP? The Open Web Application Security Project, or OWASP, is an…
What is digital identity?
Digital identity is the way a computer stores a record of an external person or system. It is closely related to authentication. What is digital identity? In access management, digital…
What is token-based authentication?
Token-based authentication is one way to confirm a user’s or device’s identity. It relies on checking whether the entity possesses a previously issued token. What is token-based authentication? Token-based authentication…
What is authentication?
Authentication is the process of verifying identity. It requires using passwords, hardware tokens, or several other methods. In cyber security, authentication is verifying someone’s or something’s identity. Authentication usually occurs…
What is two-factor authentication? 2FA / 2 step verification explained
With two-factor authentication (2FA), users must prove their identity through two different means before being granted access. What is two-factor authentication? Two-factor authentication, abbreviated as 2FA, is an authentication process…
IT is like Dog Paddling
You have to keep moving or you will sink. “Don’t you see? You were never an ugly duckling. You were a beautiful senior administrative analyst.”
Too Big to Fail: Definition, History, and Reforms
“Too big to fail” describes a business or business sector so ingrained in a financial system or economy that its failure would be disastrous. The government will consider bailing out…
StarkNet will begin migrating to Sepolia testnet on November 15th
Starknet has announced on the X platform that after Goerli is discontinued, it will migrate its test network to Sepolia. The Goerli test network will be discontinued at the end…
DEFINITION: binary
binary What is binary? Binary describes a numbering scheme with only two possible values for each digit — 0 or 1 — and is the basis for all binary code…
42, Life: The Universe, Everything
Forty-two is the ASCII code for the symbol *, also known as the asterisk. This symbol is often thought to translate to anything or everything. In this instance, 42 =…