Are passwords passé?

Although passwords are considered by many to be the first frontier in the fight against security problems, some companies are actually abandoning them, considering them too weak a tool to do much good. Instead, these companies are taking more stringent measures like RSA tokens for two-factor VPNs and fingerprint readers for local log-ons. Another option is to change the way passwords are formulated, such as increasing the password length to 128 characters or greater. Some companies are even experimenting with combining the two. For example, employees would face a log-on screen and enter their PIN and RSA token information and get authenticated. Behind the scenes, RSA and Citrix would accept the two-factor token authentication information and pass an extremely long Windows password to authenticate to the needed Windows resources.

Read more about new methods of security:
- read the article at InfoWorld

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- read this on the basics of passwords
- and this on providers passing up passwords for better technology