Knowledge Based Authentication and Data Breaches – Your Security Questions Are Belong to Us

All your security questions are belong to us

Troy Hunt recently testified before the US Congress about Data Breaches. The focus was how data breaches affect knowledge based authentication. Identity verification in a post breach world is more challenging than ever.

His testimony is available on his blog. It is worth a read – I’ll wait here until you return.

You can watch the hearing on YouTube. (1.5 hours)

Much of his talk comes from his experience running a website tracking data breaches. If you have not already checked your information in Have I Been Pwned take a look. You can have it notify you if your account has been in a data breach.

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