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Mario Ortiz

SOC manager and co-host of the Scinary Information Nexus cybersecurity podcast at Scinary Cybersecurity.

Sep 18, 2026

RichardHOST
12:31
Just because you have MFA on that one account, like you said, there's also like the management interface facing the internet and being able to get into that because that's a different authentication path than the main SSL VPN path.
12:45
I mean, a few years ago, we had an incident where MSP that we managed, they had, oh, what was it? They had an account with Duo, but in bypass mode.
12:56
So with MFA enabled on that account, that account was allowed to bypass MFA.
13:52
I mean,
13:52
that's how NIST 853, I mean, every time we go through that with a client, we talk about them ensuring that their vendors and third parties are abiding by their terms and conditions, not what the vendor wants to do, but by the organization's policies.
14:06
If the organization requires everybody to use multi-factor, the vendor has to use multi-factor.

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