Texting More Effective in a Disaster

In nearly every case, texting on mobile phones works even when voice calls are impossible. It stands to reason then that texting could and should play a major role in your disaster recovery (DR) planning. “The very first responders usually are average citizens, who happen to be on the scene of where a disaster is…

Two Factor Authentication: SMS vs. Tokens

The numbers are staggering. About 750 million airline passengers must remove their shoes every year because one lone nut, Richard Reid (now a resident of a supermax prison in Colorado), once tried to blow up a plane with a shoe loaded with Pentaerythritoltetranitrate (PETN). The hordes of stamping stockinged feet notwithstanding, PETN is not detectable…