Siber Systems White Paper Sample

Executive Summary

Organizations need to protect their data and restrict access to enterprise resources to authorized users.

Many companies attempt to address their security concerns by simply implementing stronger password policies, requiring employees to remember more and stronger passwords for all applications.

However, most employees can not remember more than one or two strong passwords, so they won’t follow the policy, resulting in less network security and more requests to the help desk to reset lost passwords. This is what we refer to as the Password Management Paradox — the assertion that ractually decrease overall corporate security.

A company has several options available to protect access to sensitive data, including…

• A Strong Password Policy
• Password Synchronization
• Single Sign-On
• Single Sign-On Alternatives (Enterprise Password Management)

Effective security requires a policy that users will actually follow and that doesn’t tie up the IT help desk.....