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August 17, 2010  5:48 PM

8-character passwords are so 1999 – 12 characters is 21st century



Posted by: Troy Tate
access management, authentication, brute force, hacking, identity management, information security, infosec, infosecurity, Password, password management, secure access, Security

Today's computers and add-on processors (think graphics processing units - GPU's) are extremely powerful. The GPU of today offers about 2 teraflops (10^12 floating...

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May 12, 2010  1:16 PM

A password reminder to carry with you



Posted by: Troy Tate
access management, identity management, information security, infosec, infosecurity, Password, password management, secure access, Security

Okay, passwords may have reached the end of their useful life, but passwords are not gone yet. I know it is a challenge to come up with a unique secure password for all identities that we use to access secured...

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February 25, 2009  2:30 PM

Did you see this? – The Cheapskate’s Infosecurity Toolbox



Posted by: Troy Tate
information security, infosecurity, management, research, toolkit, tools

This may be a couple of years old, but the need for infosecurity tools and requirements for cheap solutions has not changed. This was first published in the CSO magazine in 2006. The tools have only gotten better since then. Hope you can find some use for the tools that it recommends in these...

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