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Have you got the two factor message yet?

By Davey Winder in Editorial

Posted in Security on October 4, 2007 at 12:45 am

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According to research commissioned by RSA, 80% of all new corporate VPN installations now use two-factor protection including tokens, single use passcodes and USB keys. The fact that the message about simple passwords just not being good enough has been heard, understood and acted upon is good news. The problem is getting the same message across at the smaller end of the business market, where small to medium companies are investing in VPNs but not necessarily investing in the right levels of security.

The usual suspects of perceived cost and complexity issues when it comes to deployment and management would seem to be at the heart of the reluctance to get rid of weak passwords. Yet fully managed two-factor services are affordable and remove complexity from the equation altogether.

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