Evolving phishing and ransomware cyber threats and new regulations such as CJIS necessitate new approaches to protect digital assets and secure citizen data. State and local agencies may still need to rely on username and password, mobile-based MFA or legacy token-based authentication but are working towards modernizing MFA efforts and providing options for phishing-resistant MFA across the state. Learn from the State of Texas on how they are protecting user access to critical digital assets for office workers, remote workers, shared device users and mobile-restricted demographics with modern phishing-resistant FIDO multi-factor authentication in order to advance security and stay ahead of the regulatory curve. 1. How to evolve cybersecurity strategies to future-proof against new AI-driven cyber threats and phishing attacks 2. Fundamentals of modern FIDO and how it protects against evolving threats 2. Best practices, considerations and lessons learned from State of Texas and other state and local government agencies, in their journey from legacy authentication to modern FIDO authentication