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

By Charlie Mitchell / December 15, 2022

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...


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