Joe Lombardo: “The state has initiated identity hardening processes which…”

“At this point in the recovery process, my team continues to balance transparency with operational success. Security concerns. We are implementing stronger governance policies and controls across state government. The state has initiated identity hardening processes which include requiring a stronger minimum password standard and expanding multi factor authentication. so criminals cannot reuse the old logins information that the employees use previously. To further assist this we begun a reestablishment of remote access or VPN for validated users with multi factor authentication which restores services to the rural users.” (04:25–04:37)

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