When a clinician touches a reader at a shared workstation, the screen clears and their worklist appears within seconds. The security question is not whether the reader works. It is what the workstation can prove about that person, for how long, and what happens to the record when someone else...
Most sign-in setups were built one control at a time. A password came first, a text code was added later, and a single sign-on layer arrived when the number of applications grew. Each addition closes some risks and leaves others open. The useful question is not whether a bank has...
/by Ayush BhansaliOpening a bank account on your phone takes a few minutes. You type your details, photograph your driver's license, and take a selfie. Behind those steps, the bank runs several security layers. Each one targets a different way someone could open an account in a name that is not theirs....
/by Ayush BhansaliPeople use these three terms almost interchangeably in meetings, and that's part of the problem. SSO, 2FA, and MFA solve different problems; one is about convenience across applications, the other two are about proving who you are. Mixing them up leads to bad security decisions, like assuming that because you have SSO, you're covered on...
/by Ayush BhansaliMulti-factor authentication gets recommended constantly, but the reasoning behind it often gets lost in vague advice like "add another layer." The more useful question is narrower: which specific attacks does MFA actually stop, and which ones can still slip through if it is set up the wrong way? Most breaches...
/by Ayush BhansaliPasswords alone keep failing. Most breaches still trace back to one that was reused, guessed, or bought after an unrelated hack. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is the most common fix, and also one of the most debated, since it genuinely stops most identity attacks but also genuinely adds friction if it...
/by Ayush BhansaliMost breach case studies involve a chain of failures. This one did not need a chain. A single remote access portal without multi-factor authentication was enough to trigger the largest healthcare data breach in US history, one that has now cost UnitedHealth Group more than $3.6 billion and affected roughly...
/by Ayush Bhansali"Best practice" and "legal requirement" get used interchangeably in security conversations, and they shouldn't be. Some industries are genuinely mandated to use MFA by name, with specific technical requirements attached. Others get strongly pushed toward it through data-protection obligations that never actually say the word "authentication." Knowing which situation you're...
/by Ayush BhansaliA password by itself is a single point of failure. Once it is guessed, phished, or leaked in someone else's breach, that is often all it takes to get into an account, regardless of how complex the password was to begin with. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) closes that gap by requiring...
/by Ayush Bhansali"Best practice" and "legal requirement" get used interchangeably in security conversations, and they shouldn't be. Some industries are genuinely mandated to use MFA by name, with specific technical requirements attached. Others get strongly pushed toward it through data-protection obligations that never actually say the word "authentication." Knowing which situation you're...
/by Ayush Bhansali