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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 11, 2009  8:08 PM

Tracking down that user/computer that locks AD accounts



Posted by: Troy Tate
account management, Active Directory, AD, administration, analysis, anti-virus, antivirus, Data security, diagnostics, howto, information security, malicious activity, malware, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, network security, Password, password management, policy enforcement, reporting, risk, risks, scanning, search, Security, security notification, tools, troubleshooting, Windows

With an environment spanning 18+ sites and more than 3000 computers around the globe, you could understand how challenging it would be to track down what device/user might be locking user accounts. There are tools out there that you can pay for that can help do this. However, Microsoft has some...

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