PC Magazine

single-factor authentication

Using only one element to authenticate a login; for example, one password, one pattern swipe or one biometric recognition. Contrast with two-factor authentication. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ...
Crain's Cleveland Business

Single Factor Authentication: A security risk and bad practice

As Cybersecurity Awareness month kicks off in October many businesses will look to improve their security posture by providing additional training to their staff or by implementing additional ...
Homeland Security Today

CISA Adds Single-Factor Authentication to List of Bad Practices

Today, CISA added the use of single-factor authentication for remote or administrative access systems to our Bad Practices list of exceptionally risky cybersecurity practices. Single-factor ...
Bleeping Computer

CISA: Don’t use single-factor auth on Internet-exposed systems

Single-factor authentication (SFA) has been added today by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to a very short list of cybersecurity bad practices it advises against. CISA's ...