The recent RSA SecurID hack has led to its first known victim in the shape of US defence contractor Lockheed Martin. Lockheed suffered a “significant and tenacious attack” on its IT network on 21 May and has now confirmed the hackers used the data that was stolen from RSA in March.

The attack was made possible because RSA stored their ‘secret keys’ on a server which was accessible from the net and has resulted in RSA having to replace 40 million tokens.

We recently raised this issue with our two-factor authentication of choice – Vasco. Vasco have advised us that due to the fact that their business grow out of the banking sector and as such, their ‘secret keys’ are not stored on a server accessible from the net and therefore they are not at risk in the same way that RSA was.

With RSA in the news and fears about its security, now is the time to talk to us about Vasco two-factor authentication solutions.