How many times a day do you wash your hands? If you think this seems like an absurd question, and totally unrelated to security, you’re wrong… kind of. How are security and health connected? Both require good personal hygiene, a concept as familiar as washing your hands or (you guessed it!) brushing your teeth.
So, what is cyber hygiene, and how can you get better at it? Cyber hygiene can be thought of as best practices, often simple in nature, that keep your systems healthy and your data secure. These best practices are part of a defense in depth strategy — a strategy that ensures there are multiple layers of security so that if one layer fails, another will be there to protect everything. One of the most important, and simplest, cybersecurity best practices is using multi-factor authentication (or MFA, also referred to as two-factor authentication) to secure access to
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