Practical Cybersecurity with Jen Stone · 2026-06-09 · 28 min
Passwords were built for a different era of the internet. It’s time to move past shared secrets to close your organization's largest threat vector for good. Traditional passwords and legacy Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) are no longer enough to protect your business. Automated, scaling phishing toolkits easily intercept shared secrets, leaving small and medium businesses highly vulnerable to credential breaches. In this episode, Jen sits down with Nishant Kaushik, Chief Technology Officer at the FIDO Alliance, to translate complex cryptographic standards into an actionable, resource-light deployment plan. Learn how to transition away from legacy authentication and close the hidden operational loopholes that hackers actively exploit. What You Will Learn: The Flaw in Basic MFA: Why SMS codes and standard one-time passwords (OTPs) are failing, and what true "phishing-resistant" security means. The Account Recovery Trap: Why a weak "Forgot Password" workflow accidentally gives hackers their primary attack vector back - and how to fix it. The Bottom-Line Benefit: How moving to passkeys drastically reduces internal IT helpdesk tickets, manual password resets, and overhead costs.
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