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Sophisticated social engineering and other tactics make it imperative that agencies have more than one layer of authentication to ensure the user on the network is the person who is supposed to be there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the wake of the breaches at the Office of Personnel Management, the Office of Management and Budget instituted a 30-day cyber sprint with the prime goal of increasing two-factor authentication deployment across government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alternate=\"\" assetid=\"74695000\" assettype=\"oEmbed\" class=\"imgAsset middle\" credit=\"\" cutline=\"\" providername=\"{providername}\" src=\"\/Portals\/_default\/Skins\/PrestoLegacy\/CommonCss\/images\/smartembed.png\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"Cyber sprint increases use of two factor authentication [ID=74695000] [oEmbed : 74695000]\" width=\"50px\"\/>Network Segmentation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don&#8217;t make it easy for the adversary to move around once they&#8217;ve breached the network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By segmenting data and applications and limiting the pathways for those segments to interact, a minor intrusion might not turn into a major catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the mock breach used during the simulation, a compromise of a third-party payroll management vendor was used to steal proprietary information about the fake company, including data on pricing and distribution contracts. 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