I recently wrote about the desire, by many, to see the death of passwords. All negatives considered, if passwords go away, it won’t be because people don’t like them but because they lose their efficacy and cost proposition (they’re effectively free, transportable, satisfy the “something you know” criteria, and they’re easy to replace). After that… Continue reading Managing Passwords, Securely
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The Death of Passwords
Good enough. It’s not a concept most people associate with information security people or the approach to information security but it is something we in information security desire. We don’t want to overburden ourselves with unnecessary work or even management of controls. To delve down into one area of security, namely AUTHENTICATION, passwords are… Continue reading The Death of Passwords
Cool Tool For Passwords
If you want to generate strong passwords but you don’t want to store them in the Cloud or on your hard drive Passera is a handy tool for you. You can come up with your own passphrase of up to 64 characters, enter it into Passera and use the resulting hash as your password… Continue reading Cool Tool For Passwords