This time of year everyone is probably thinking about their upcoming New Year’s resolutions. Or they might be tactfully forgetting the ones that they made last year, which have probably long since been broken. We all tend to make these impossible promises to ourselves as the year draws to a close. We are going to spend less money on stuff we don’t need, lose weight, take more time to enjoy life, eat healthier, get more organized, go back to school, help people, be nicer to our families or change the world.
We make those promises with the best of intentions. I suppose if they last for a couple weeks or months before going down in flames, then at least we attempted some better behaviors for a little while. I can’t really do anything to encourage you to keep your gym memberships up, but I may be able to help with some technical resolutions that can, and probably should, be followed all year long. And I am not just talking about individual feds. Some of these resolutions can be implemented agencywide.
While not all of them are quick fixes, once implemented they should be easy enough to maintain. Mix a few of these in with your anti-chocolate New Year promises and you can at least make sure that a few resolutions survive until 2021.
1. I promise to add multi-factor authentication to my networks and devices.
For individuals, adding multi-factor authentication is relatively easy for most devices. For example, if you own a modern Windows laptop, it comes with Windows Hello, which can be used as a biometric-based password. How it works is that the webcam can be trained to recognize valid users, only letting someone login after it verifies who they ar ..
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