FTC technology leader emphasizes four cybersecurity practices businesses should adopt to keep up with threats

The Federal Trade Commission’s cyber policies and recent orders are built on four cybersecurity best practices that companies should be embracing, according to a senior FTC technologist, who offered an overview on the commission’s approach to data security.

Multifactor authentication, or MFA, use of anti-phishing MFA, requiring “connections” within a network to be encrypted, and setting data retention schedules are “modern practices” that are key to adequate cybersecurity, deputy chief technologist Alex Gaynor said Wednesday in a presentation at the...