Archive for September, 2010
Access Smart Partners with Stamps.com
Posted by: | CommentsAccess Smart® Partners with Stamps.com® to offer smartcard-based, password management solution
Reduce your shipping costs while securing your desktop post office
Ladera Ranch, CA – Sept. 30, 2010 – Access Smart today announced its partnership with Stamps.com (NASDAQ:STMP), the leading provider of USPS® postage online and shipping software solutions. With its multi-factor smartcard, Power LogOn by Access Smart provides a convenient, affordable and easy-to-use way for customers to manage their Stamps.com passwords. Read More→
Two-Factor, Password Management is Manditory
Posted by: | CommentsIT Security is raising the level of password length from 8 to 13 characters or higher.
This puts more burden on the employee to manage their secure passwords. Stronger passwords without management tools will force users to come up with their own methods. That is why companies need to seriously invest in strong password manager solutions if they want to prevent data breaches. But with different versions on the market how do you choose? Here are just a few key features to consider: Read More→
Corporate Network Security Technology Comparison
Posted by: | CommentsA few years ago, many of us had only a few passwords to remember. Today, we have dozens. Corporate networks have become virtually impossible to use today without passwords. On top of this, “IT’s best security practice” requires that employees change passwords frequently and use long, complex passwords. Unfortunately, this has encouraged poor password management habits that lead to security breaches, privacy violations and huge fines.
IT managers have a host of secure, authentication technologies available to safeguard corporate networks. Alongside Smartcard-based Password Managers are One-Time Password (OTP), Certificate-based Logon (PKI), and server-based Single Sign-On (SSO) all targeted to solve the “password problems”. Read More→
Secure Corporate Networks with Password Management
Posted by: | CommentsThe emergence of the World Wide Web as a global, around the clock marketplace has opened a multitude of new opportunities to businesses which have never before been seen. Computers and global communication networks have brought vendors, customers and markets together in new and beneficial ways. Along with all of the benefits which business has gained from the information age come some downsides. New crimes have not been created by new technology, but rather new technology has given new tools to criminals to commit the same crimes as they always have. The difference is that criminals now have a global reach, just as businesses do. In the U.S. at least, the responsibility for protecting consumers from having their personal information pilfered is placed upon businesses. Read More→
Passwords are More Secure than Biometrics for Network Security
Posted by: | CommentsA Hewlett-Packard’s white paper “HP ProtectTools: Authentication technologies and suitability to task“, 06/2005, does a very good job discussing the different security technologies available (Passwords, Trusted Platform Module, smartcard USB token, biometric fingerprints and virtual tokens) to authenticate a user to a computer or network. I was particularly drawn to the concluding chart (see below) where it compares the “Level of Security” vs. “Administration Complexity”. Read More→
