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#124 - Simple, Easy, & Cheap Cybersecurity Measures (with Brent Deterding)

Apr 10, 2023
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ADVICE

Secure Access with Strong MFA

  • Protect your organization by focusing on strong authentication and device security with MFA, EDR, and patch management.
  • Use good MFA methods like FIDO2 and enforce device ownership and trusted device login to reduce unauthorized access.
ADVICE

Fundamental Cybersecurity Practices

  • Implement risk assessments, incident response plans, and data backups as foundational cybersecurity practices.
  • Restrict administrative privileges and only allow authorized applications to reduce potential attack surfaces.
INSIGHT

Keep Security Simple and Usable

  • Complexity harms security; simplifying defenses often yields better protection.
  • Security solutions unused by employees offer no value, so make secure options easy and default to enhance adoption.
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