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        Neighborhood Planning  Committee.  “The   at  att.com/notifyme. AT&T is  committed   order  service. Be  sure  to have  your ACP
        Barrio Neighborhood Planning  Committee   to connecting more Americans to reliable,   application  ID handy when  you do this.
        advocates  for  ways to strengthen  our   high-speed  broadband  internet  in  several   AT&T  Fiber, now  delivering  speeds  of up
        community and showcase our local talent,”   ways, including expanding  and  upgrading   to 5-Gigs, is  truly internet  that upgrades
        said  Teresa  Kenedy, President,  Barrio   our network and participating in the federal   everything. Offering consumers the fastest
        Neighborhood  Planning  Committee.  “This   Affordable  Connectivity  Program (ACP).   internet1  paired with  network reliability,
        investment in connectivity by both the city   The ACP provides eligible households with   AT&T  Fiber  supports  the  powerfully
        and AT&T will bring countless opportunities   a benefit of up to $30 a month (up to $75 a   interconnected  home, work and  family
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        fiber and can sign up to be notified when   ACP  eligibility, call  us at  866-986-0963  or





                                             Cisco Shares Key Trends Around Risk Reduction
                                             and IT Security



        Cisco published the 2022 Duo Trusted Access Report under the   5.  Hybrid  work  and  back  to  the  office:  Remote  access
        motto  "Logins  in  a  dangerous  time".  The  report  analyzes  data   authentications peaked in 2020 but have declined since then.
        from 13  billion  authentications  on  almost  50  million  different
        devices worldwide made via Cisco Duo. Overall, the report shows
        that  companies  recognize  and  use  multi-factor authentication
        (MFA)  and  passwordless  technologies  as  important  elements
        for risk reduction and IT security. “Digitization in the region and
        beyond, paves  the  way for  a surge in  cyber  threats  at all  levels
        across organizations. With companies rigorously adopting hybrid
        and  remote working  models, indispensable  business  devices
        such as laptops and mobile phones are now more vulnerable than
        before. At Cisco we believe that business and IT leaders need to
        train,  and  ultimately, encourage the  organization’s  workforce to
        implement  MFA  and  passwordless  technologies  to ensure  their
        assets are updated with additional layers of security,” said Fady
        Younes, Cybersecurity Director, EMEA Service Providers and MEA,
        The report highlights the following important insights:
        1.  Passwordless  adoption  continues  to  rise:  our data  shows  a
          50% increase in the percentage of accounts allowing WebAuthn
          authentication and a fivefold increase in WebAuthn usage since
          April 2019.
        2.  Biometrics  have stalled:  The  percentage  of phones  with
          biometrics enabled held steady at around 81% (a minor increase
          from 2021), indicating that progress towards biometrics across
          the board has stalled.
        3.  MFA continues  to strengthen  passwords:  Multi-factor
          authentication  holds  strong  while  adding  to the  security
          of only  traditional  password usage.  The  number  of MFA
          authentications using Duo rose by 38% in the past year.
        4.  Cloud  usage  continues  to rise:  An  increasing  number of
          authentications are attributed to cloud applications, with a 24%
          rise in the percentage of cloud applications in 2022.




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