Cyber Resilience
Resilience is defined by Merriam-Webster as “an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.” Resilience is Read more...
ITS Develops Budget App
It is that time of the year where all state agencies need to submit their state budget requests for the Read more...
Cyber Fusion
Recently, CIO/Administrator, Alberto Gonzalez, traveled with Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Jerred Edgar and representatives from the Idaho Military Division Read more...
Cybersecurity Focus of the Month: MFA
Multifactor Authentication (MFA) has been found to stop 99% of all cyber attacks related to credential-based attacks where credentials were captured, purchased, or stolen. Properly implemented, this makes it less likely for a bad actor to use a person’s identity to carry out a cyber attack. Read more...
Cybersecurity Statistic of the Month: Password Complexity and MFA
Part of password complexity includes lock out triggers and lock out times. It is unlikely a user will type a password incorrectly five times and even less likely to do so in one second. Requiring a 15 minute time out after five consecutive incorrect password attempts increases the amount of time required to crack a password.
According to a Forbes study, 35% of people with stolen passwords say that a simple password was the cause of their problems. Read more...
