Strong Passwords - Customer Friendly Computer Security

Go into to any office and look under the computer keyboards and you’ll eventually find a little piece of paper with that users logon ID and passwords. Probably every password that person has. This illustrates a serious problem with the use of networked computers in business. User apathy and IT security arrogance often combine to defeat the purpose of established security policies. What happens is that IT security policies clash with usability. Most customers will not follow policies they see as too difficult. One place IT policies and user compliance clash is at the point of entry for any secure computer system. The logon screen. First, let’s agree on a definition for a strong password. From Webopedia, A password that is difficult to detect by both humans and com View the rest of this article