Posted in Security, Usability on March 12th, 2004 39 Comments »
Last month, when writing security policies for a City firm, I came to the topic of password policy. What is the best practice on passwords? What is a reasonable password length these days that will not make the life for people too difficult? I thought I could find some guidance in system hardening guides. I […]
Posted in Security, Usability on July 22nd, 2002 Comments Off
Phillip Windley blogs on single sign-on for his e-Government applications. Interestingly I dipped my toes into somethinq similar here in the UK and it is interesting to see the differences.
1. Phillip mentions the need to support Screenname and Passport alongside his own internal authentication. Passport is not terribly popular on this side of the ocean, which in […]