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The password mismanagement minefield

By Davey Winder in Editorial

Posted in Uncategorized on September 15, 2006 at 2:32 pm

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The latest RSA Security annual password management survey, covering more than 1300 businesses across the globe, confirmed what most of us already know: passwords remain the weakest link in the business security chain. Well, to be more precise, managing corporate passwords is the real problem. Sadly, little has changed in the 12 months since RSA published the results of its first such survey and end users are still faced with an overwhelming number of passwords to mismanage. The end result being behaviours that fall way short of secure, that invite security breaches and could encourage potential compliance issues.

Of the people polled who were employed directly in the field of corporate password management, 57% admitted that they don

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