Securing Access: Making Passwords a Legitimate Corporate Defense

Being forced to select a new password can be a frustrating experience for users. By the time they've memorized their latest secure (or favorite, but insecure) password, 'The System' forces them to change it again. Users don't necessarily care about security issues; they just want to get their work done. It's your role to ensure that system and application passwords are secure from both internal and external attacks. Making that easy for users is critical. All this causes you to lose sleep at night. This paper outlines four easy steps to secure access to your systems using strong passwords even those selected by users. After reading this paper you will have the information you need with a reasonable plan of 'attack' to secure critical company information while enabling secure access for your users.