Michael Thelander
Director Product Marketing, Axiad
MFA Fatigue, SS7 Exploits, and Attack Kits: Future-proofing Your MFA
Identity-based attacks are growing in potency and frequency: IDSA reported in their 2024 survey that 91% of organizations experienced identity-based attacks. While multifactor authentication has been available for years, most implementations are weak and do not provide true phishing resistance. By future-proofing your MFA you can defend against emerging attacks, strengthen your authentication posture, and authenticate users, devices, and applications … without ripping a replacing your existing systems. The benefits? Lower costs, happier end users, and fewer support calls.
What Attendees Will Learn:
- How current MFA attacks have evolved in potency and ease of execution.
- How to augment MFA solutions with robust credential management based on FIDO and PKI.
- How to achieve what CISA calls “phishing-resistant MFA,” with your existing solution.
- How to deploy and manage strong authentication processes across people, machines and applications without replacing existing systems.
Who Should Attend:
- CISOs
- IAM leaders
- Security strategists
- Authentication engineers
- IAM practitioners responsible for designing and deploying next-generation MFA solutions.
The Panelists
Michael Thelander
Director Product Marketing, Axiad
Michael is director of product marketing at Axiad. He has a 20-year history steering go-to-market efforts for cybersecurity innovators like Eclypsium, Iovation, Venafi and Tripwire, and received CISSP training through SANS. He’s written for Cyber Security: A Peer Reviewed Journal and speaks at industry events like BSides and Gartner’s IAM Summit.
