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The password problem
Security experts agree. The greatest risk of sensitive or mission-critical information getting into the wrong hands is users themselves. Many people are simply very careless in handling passwords.
Carelessness creates major problems. Knowledge and business secrets vanish with a press on a key. Sensitive personal information that should be private becomes available to others. Information is corrupted, intentionally or unintentionally. Attacks on security make systems unusable. Unauthorized persons can get hold of passwords more easily than ever and enter systems without leaving traces. These kinds of incidents lead to enormous annual costs for individuals, businesses and the public sector.
A part of the password problem could be solved if organizations had good security routines and if employees applied them. But it has proven to difficult to have employees consistently follow the routines. For example, users do not always log off from systems when they leave their computers. They lend their passwords to others, write them down on notes, share them with colleagues, get new ones by phone and use the same passwords for several systems. As a result, passwords easily find their way to unauthorized persons.