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Bipartisan Bill Would Mandate Multifactor Authentication, Pen TestingProposed legislation that's been kicking around Congress for the last few years that aims to help bolster cybersecurity of the healthcare sector cleared a critical hurdle on Thursday. But will the bill gain enough momentum to pass the full Senate, the House and be signed into law?
Urges Companies to Regularly Patch Their ProductsThe British National Health Service is prodding suppliers to commit to voluntary cybersecurity measures in a bid to prevent disruptive hacks. Among the proposed measures are regularly patching IT systems, instituting multifactor authentication and requiring IT suppliers to monitor and log their systems to allow prompt incident response.
Code of Practice for Software Vendors Sets Baseline Security ExpectationsA British government proposal to strengthen software supply chain security received positive feedback from vendors who said voluntary best practices could strengthen cyber defenses. The guidelines suggest requiring multifactor authentication for developers and timely vulnerability patching.
The changes to the healthcare privacy regulation with technical controls such as network segmentation, multi-factor authentication, and encryption. The changes would strengthen cybersecurity protections for electronic health information and address evolving threats against healthcare entities.
In case anyone forgot about Change Healthcare American hospitals and healthcare organizations would be required to adopt multi-factor authentication (MFA) and other minimum cybersecurity standards under new legislation proposed by a bipartisan group of US senators. …
SMS OTPs are overused, so bring on the tokens and biometrics India's central bank on Wednesday proposed a requirement for dynamically generated second authentication factors for most digital payments.…
Device Bound Session Credentials Tie Authentication Cookies to Specific ComputersGoogle is prototyping a method to stymie hackers who get around multifactor security by stealing authentication cookies from desktops. Google says its proposal for cryptographically tying authentication tokens to computers will succeed where previous attempts such as Token Binding failed.