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The Death of Passwords: 3 Easy Steps to Increasing User Productivity, Enhancing Authentication, and Lowering Password Reset Costs With Enterprise Single-Sign On

Eliminating passwords is no longer a "Pipe dream." It is an attainable reality - one that can be implemented in the enterpriser. Enterprise Single Sign-On ESSO is no longer the unattainable "Holy grail." The Passlogix v-GO Sign-On Platform has emerged as the first industry standard sign-on platform with a full...

Tags: Password, Passlogix, Provisioning, Authentication

White papers 2009-02-10

PCI & Strong Access Control: The Shortest Distance to Compliance

Of the many challenges involved in complying with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS designed to prevent the theft of consumer credit card information, one of the most difficult involves the group of requirements related to what the standard calls Strong Access Control Measures. This paper outlines...

Tags: Passlogix, Compliance, Consumer Credit, Access Control, Single Sign-on, Authentication/Encryption, PCI, Security, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2008-09-03

Does Single Sign-On Really Expose the Network to a "Keys to the Kingdom" Attack?

Single sign-on enables users to authenticate once in order to access many resources. Does this single point of authentication also introduce a single point of attack and thereby reduce overall network security? As demonstrated in the paper, single sign-on does not reduce overall network security, and indeed, may raise it....

Tags: Network, Passlogix, Network Security, Single Sign-on, Attack, Authentication/Encryption, Networking, Security

White papers 2006-05-18

Additional Resources

Catalyst: Night 1

After arriving one day late to Catalyst, I began my whirlwind tour of one of identity's main events. Catalyst, unlike other conferences, organizes the vendors into "hospitality suites" - one room parties with food and drinks provided. So, while some vendors like Microsoft focus on bringing 18,000 partners into the...

Tags: Eric Norlin, Identity

Blog posts 2006-06-15

Putting vendors on the map

Tuesday, I laid out our vision of the digital identity industry map. To expand on that, I'm going to place some vendors on that map -- in effect, mapping their companies (or in the case of big technology companies, their products) to the different categories. The identity universe is composed...

Tags: Eric Norlin, IBM Corp., identity, identity industry, Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., RSA Security Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc.

Blog posts 2006-04-06

40% of helpdesk calls are related to password problems

According to Passlogix, roughly 40% of calls made to corporate help-desks are related to password problems. 220,000 USPS employees made 30,000 calls each month to have their passwords reset, Business Week says.

Tags: password

Blog posts 2005-11-30

Liberty Alliance debuts new standard

Liberty Alliance debuts new standardAs many will surely point out.It's not a "standard", it's just another concept of how it should be.Is this what Ballmer said "has zero chance of mattering" in October 2001 ??Is this the same Liberty Alliance which Ballmer said "has zero chance of mattering" in October...

Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft .NET, Liberty Alliance, Steve Ballmer

Discussion threads 2003-11-12