Innovative Multi-Factor Authentication Strategies For Effective Security

We often bemoan the seeming immortality of username/password authentication schemes. Why can't everyone implement strong authentication, multifactor authentication, Secure Sockets Layer Virtual Private Networks (SSL VPN) for remote access? The answer is really quite simple: Doing those things is too expensive -- the actual cost of the software and/or hardware, the ongoing maintenance, and support and the "human capital" cost in terms of educating and training users who only want quick and easy access to their data.

Well, RSA believes they have the answer. That's "RSA, The Security Division of EMC," of course (and why is EMC so afraid we'll forget that?). We'll just call them "RSA" -- you'll know who I mean.

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