On the floor at this year’s RSAC Conference, exhibitors warned about threats, bad actors, and various dangers online—but one thing that’s of little concern, so far, is the current US economic situation.

Perhaps that’s to be expected. RSAC is a cybersecurity-first event, and that subsector of the tech industry is likely to be less affected by White House policies on trade than hardware and software. People IT Brew chatted with on the floor said they haven’t noticed an appreciable decline in business yet.

At software company Jamf, which specializes in Apple device management, things are largely chugging along. VP of Portfolio Strategy Michael Covington told IT Brew that the company has yet to see a shift.

“We’ve continued to see refresh cycles in the industries that we’re focused on,” Covington said. “Mobile has been probably the fastest growing area of our business, and that’s an area where, up to this point, I have seen no slowing and no indication of slowing.”

Jeff Shiner, 1Password co-CEO, told IT Brew that the economic instability is not affecting the password management company “significantly.” But while the business side is stable, Shiner said, instability can affect employees, which in turn has ramifications on productivity.

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Maybe it’s time to pass on the humble password.

That’s what some privacy experts are saying about World Password Day, the unofficial May 1 holiday invented by Intel in 2013 aimed at raising awareness on security and password safety. In today’s world, as we move toward a passwordless future, the need for gimmicks to raise awareness is questionable, BeyondID CEO Arun Shrestha told IT Brew.

“Instead of saying this is about World Password Day, how about thinking about it the right way, more like the identity-first approach?” Shrestha said.

More businesses are looking to implement passwordless standards, with the understanding that the general public is likely to slowly follow suit. Still, organizations like RSA are moving forward with plans to implement the new passkeys to offer a “range of options” for users.

For Shrestha, a passwordless future involves ensuring that security moves on from a “dated approach” that no longer applies to today’s security needs.

Jeff Shiner, co-CEO of 1Password, told IT Brew that his company sees the passwordless future as a positive.

Will passwords ever pass muster?—EH

It sounds like another Vin Diesel movie, but that’s not why agencies around the world are warning of a new “fast flux” threat.

A joint advisory from six cyber orgs, including the NSA, CISA, and Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS), urged cyber pros and ISPs to collaborate against a dodgy tactic that’s dodging detections.

If the Domain Name System (DNS) is the internet’s phonebook, translating dot-com domains into the numbered IP addresses that computers understand, think of “fast flux” as a way for threat actors to call home from different numbers.

Malicious cyber actors, including cybercriminals and nation-state actors, use the flux to change IP addresses and “obfuscate the locations of malicious servers,” the advisory began.

“This technique poses a significant threat to national security, enabling malicious cyber actors to consistently evade detection,” CISA wrote in its April 3 advisory.

Here’s how it all works.—BH