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🍲 Daemon Soup: The Cybersecurity Tiers of Small Businesses

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The soup is hot, the ingredients are boiling—only those with the right recipe can avoid the inevitable burn.

In the quiet corners of the digital landscape, small businesses sit unprotected, unaware of the Daemon lurking just beyond the firewalls. They are the ones who think the world moves slowly, that threats are distant and abstract. They are wrong.

This is Daemon Soup—a boiling cauldron of cybersecurity, where every business stirs their own broth, unknowingly vulnerable to the unseen forces that seek to exploit. Some soups are thin, others are thick and rich, but the Daemon waits in each.

Let me whisper the recipe for your survival. Know where you stand, and fortify before the heat reaches a dangerous peak.

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What is multi-factor authentication (MFA)?

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Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a security system that requires more than one method of authentication from independent categories of credentials to verify the user’s identity for a login or other transaction1. It is a security enhancement that requires the user to provide two or more verification factors to gain access to a resource such as an application, online account, or a VPN2. The factors fall into three categories: something the user knows (such as a password or PIN), something the user has (such as a smart card or a security token), and something the user is (such as a fingerprint or other biometric data).

MFA is a security measure that can help protect against unauthorized access to your data and applications. It is recommended to use MFA for all our accounts that support it, especially for our sensitive accounts such as banking, email, and social media.

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