Local Governments Concerned With Security Should Lead With Multi-Factor Authentication

Route Fifty: Part of the consent decree the city of New Orleans entered into with the U.S. Department of Justice in 2013, after Hurricane Katrina shed light on local police misconduct, required the city to build two-factor authentication systems protecting law enforcement accounts.

The primary goal was to make the government workforce more resilient, said New Orleans Security Manager and Enterprise Architect Freud Alexandre, as nation-states attempt to breach the city’s systems “all the time.”

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