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I bet both of duos users will be bummed to hear about this outage.
by f1refly 3y ago
I bet both of duos users will be bummed to hear about this outage.
- Rebelgecko 3y agoIt's mandatory 2FA at the college I went to (where, coincidentally, classes are starting today)
- harrego 3y agoCollege-induced software!
- SoftTalker 3y agoIt's almost like all the college and university CIOs are choosing the same software platforms. Now why might that be?
- sbdaman 3y agoI work in post-sec and this is very common practice. There are few key players that tend to capture the majority of schools in the States/Canada for specific tech solutions. Blackboard/Canvas/D2L for LSMs, Shibboleth for SSO, Duo for 2FA, Cisco AnyConnect for VPNs. tech solutions in the field tend to be incredibly low risk given the size and make-up of the anticipated users (enterprise services with thousands of employees and tens of thousands of students). For public institutions, there's the added element of public sector risk avoidance.
- reaperman 3y agoTo be clear, Shibboleth is often self-hosted and usually the grey-beards understand how to maintain it. It's been around a long time and is very stable/robust and at least as unlikely to fail as Duo/Cisco (which are overall fairly robust with rare enough breaking failures). OTOH, rolling their own 2FA would likely create points of failure that rear their ugly head more often, not less often. Shibboleth is kind of an outlier here, due to its age/maturity and position as a very old-school piece of foundational tech that got implemented when academic IT salaries were quite a bit easier to live on than they are today. The disparity between tech salaries in academic institutions and FAANG/SaaS corps has grown immensely in the past 20 years. Most of the people who do the real work at academic institutions have been employed there for 25-40 years. Most of the young people can't stick around for long because they need to earn more money to build a stable life.
- sbdaman 3y agoI wasn't criticizing any of the companies I listed.
- harrego 3y agoMakes sense, but I still loathe the clunky stuff I end up using!
- mynameisvlad 3y agoYou make it sound like it’s some big conspiracy but the boring answer is that nobody gets fired for choosing an industry leader. Duo has positioned itself as an industry leader in MFA and is one of the safe bets when implementing that feature. This isn’t exclusive to schools, either.
- MattSteelblade 3y agoThis is Cisco's Duo used for MFA and SSO and not Google's discontinued video app.
- davewritescode 3y agoYep, and my company uses it as part of access to all of our internal applications including our AWS console. Not a super productive morning
- Gabrys1 3y agoI didn't realize this Duo was affiliated with Cisco. Now it makes sense it's so popular
- commandlinefan 3y agoIt's impacting me, but I was a little surprised to find out that Duo was "popular" enough for this outage to make it the front page of HN.
- davewritescode 3y agoI posted it and honestly I am too
- afavour 3y agoNever underestimate the number of college students hiding in the online shadows
- spike021 3y agoI've used it while working at two major companies everyone's heard of and used. Definitely seems to be popular.