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HP Federal’s Tommy Gardner on Multifactor Authentication

HP Federal's Tommy Gardner on Multifactor Authentication - top government contractors - best government contracting event

Industry and government experts talked about the future of cybersecurity at a summit held in Tallahassee, Florida, and panelists highlighted multifactor authentication and zero trust during a discussion at the event, Government Technology reported Thursday.

Tommy Gardner, chief technology officer of HP Federal, stressed the importance of implementing different forms of MFA.

The problem is most people say multifactor authentication, and what they mean is two-factor authentication,” said Gardner, a key member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program.

“Multifactor, I would submit is more than two, and using all you can to verify someone’s identity,” he added.

Gardner was joined by Jamey Heary, a chief security architect at Cisco, and Warren Sponholtz, Florida’s deputy chief information security officer, during the panel discussion.

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Written by Jane Edwards

is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.

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