April 23rd: The Perpetual Password Threat (part 2) – Live from RSA

Passwords are far from perfect. In fact, they perhaps lull our end-users into a false sense of protection which can be more dangerous than no password at all. For the average user vigilance stops once that password is entered. But the bad guys can get to your users’ passwords to do all sorts of terrible things that damage not only your clients, customers, and employees, but also your network integrity as a whole – not to mention your reputation. This episode is the second in our two-part... (Read More)

April 10th: The Perpetual Password Threat (part 1)

Think your passwords offer protection from hackers? Think again. You know your passwords are the key to your kingdom. You know you’re doing something to protect them. But chances are it’s not nearly enough. On Friday, April 10th, join Steve Dispensa and co-host Dan Costa, executive editor at PCMag.com, as they take on the password security challenge. This episode will be the first of a 2-part series: The Perpetual Password Threat. There are so many types of passwords attacks now, we couldn’t... (Read More)

Passwords are evil!

It should be obvious just from the term “strong authentication” what the data security industry thinks of simple passwords. In fact, it’s hard to have much weaker security than just a password. One of the biggest problems with passwords is that they can be shared. In fact, some of you may remember share-level security back in the days of Windows 3.x. This system required that everyone with access to the share know the password, which essentially meant that any user could make decisions about... (Read More)