How to combat brute-force attacks by using a key fob.

Preventing Brute-Force Attacks with Tokenization.

A brute-force attack occurs when an attacker systematically guesses a password with a program designed to check as many as possible (hardware-based password cracking using GPUs or FPGAs). With this process, malicious entities attempt to test the "entire key space" to guess a user's password. Though brute-force attacks take the most time, out of others, they're the most effective means of malicious password acquisition. 

The primary way to defend against brute force attacks is to have a longer password and more complex password (i.e. numbers, special characters, non-dictionary words/phrases). The longer the password, the more time it takes the attacker's program to guess the correct password.

GateKeeper™ Proximity helps admins and users defend against brute-force attacks by allowing admins to enforce long and complex passwords that would take centuries to brute-force. Using 2FA, a user only needs to have their token (presence) and type a shorter PIN (knowledge) to prevent criminals from successfully brute-forcing weak passwords. In an organization of 500 employees, it doesn't matter if 499 of them have all secure passwords if even one person has a password as weak as "Password123" - the weakest link is all it takes to penetrate into an organization. 

For any additional questions or concerns regarding GateKeeper™ continuous authentication, security, proximity settings, computer locking, credential management, or compliance, please contact GateKeeper Enterprise support using the Support Ticket form on https://gkaccess.com/support/ or email [e-mail].

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