Key Reasons For Using Cryptography In Security Measures

Cryptography is already the de facto way of securing sensitive web traffic and it is now reaching across the entire enterprise as companies start to use industry-standard protocols such as SSL internally - even between servers only a few feet apart.

1. Inexpensive tokens for strong authentication - Using anything stronger than passwords for authentication has been prohibitively expensive for anything other than premium users; but market volumes and competitive pressures are now commoditizing authentication tokens and driving functionality up and prices down.

2. Ease of deployment for tokens - The arrival of USB tokens and the inclusion of card readers in laptops and keyboards is minimizing and sometimes removing deployment costs.

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