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Poll: Dark Reading Community Acts On Heartbleed
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PaulS681
PaulS681,
 User Rank: Apprentice
4/20/2014 | 6:50:04 PM
passwords

Passwords are the weak link to many things. How many people use that word for their password?  I bet it's a pretty large number. That being said what else can we do? Finger prints maybe? I realize that's much easier said than done.

 

Marilyn Cohodas
Marilyn Cohodas,
 User Rank: Strategist
4/21/2014 | 1:21:52 PM
Re: passwords -- in relation to the Heartbleed bug
Paul, In terms of our poll, do you think the fact that only 30 percent of respondents said their organizations are requiring end users to change their passwords, reflects a deeper problem -- that most organizations have given up on the idea that passwords are an effective end-users security strategy?


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