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In today’s world, information is key to any organization’s success. Therefore, more and more organizations undertake complex steps to secure vital business data residing on users’ computers, within corporate networks and different business applications. Companies encode their documents and messages, apply complex information access and protection systems to secure the corporation against unauthorized access. However, complicated structure and lack of control of the inner infomedia - the inner threat from its own staff - are even more dangerous than attacks from the outside, which are in the focus of attention of the corresponding organization departments.
So, investments in the information security systems cannot be repaid until basic issues on information protection are solved. For example:
- An organization has a strict policy for the users’ password length and reset frequency. Such a policy might be a success, but some users cannot remember their passwords and scrabble them down on post-it notes on their tables.
- Users set a simple word, a combination of repeated numbers or symbols, his/her own name, etc. Such passwords can be found very quickly. According to the everyday practice, one can obtain about 90 % of all users’ passwords in Windows NT or 2000 with the help of a simple program for password selection based on the method of “brute force”.
- Users often set one and the same password for all the assessable information systems. Thus, if an intruder obtains one password, he will get access to all the information, which can be accessed by the user, including the corporate network, mail system and financial system of the organization.
SmartLogon system from Info Industries Group (IIG) is a solution devoted to providing a simple and user-friendly means of solving password management issues whether on a standalone computer, or within a complex network using a PKI. Users are provided with a convenient and highly secure tool to store all their passwords and digital certificates.
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