Chapter 4

Responding to a Breach

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”

—Scott Fitzgerald

On May 31, 2017, OneLogin, a San Francisco–based software security company that specializes in managing logins to applications and multiple websites, reported a data breach where threat actors allegedly may have attempted unauthorized access to OneLogin data and networks. The full extent of this breach is currently not known. However, OneLogin is sold as software to help increase a person’s overall security. There is no doubt that people started questioning the effectiveness of OneLogin security solutions after the data breach occurred. Evidence of this can be seen on Reddit discussions found on discussion forums at www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/6emqwz/password_manager_onelogin_admits_data_breach_in/ ...

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