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User IDs and passwords, privileges and federation

  • How to streamline role-based access control

    Tight budgets have forced financial-services firms to focus to look for innovative ways to improve their access control management process. In this tip, Jack Phillips explains how organizations are reducing the number or user roles in order to cut co... 

  • Privileged password management steps to success

    Privileged password management is a pain point at many financial services firms. They're costly, hard to tame and not always secured properly. In this tip, learn how to create the foundation for your privileged password management program. 

  • Best practices in managing privileged access

    In this presentation from Financial Information Security Decisions, Forrester's Andras Cser explains how financial firms can effectively management privileged users and passwords. 

  • Integrating biometric authentication with Active Directory

    Integrating biometrics with an existing enterprise IAM architecture was once a trying task, but it's much easier today because many biometrics products are designed to work hand in hand with Active Directory. Joel Dubin explains what Active Directory... 

  • Password management best practices for financial services firms

    Password management is a fundamental tenet of effective information security, but it's harder than it seems to manage passwords correctly, and far too easy to mess it up. In this tip, contributor Tony Bradley shares best practices for effective passw... 

  • Password policy worst practices

    What does and doesn't work in a password policy. 

About User IDs and passwords, privileges and federation

Strong usernames and passwords are basic best practices. But how do you keep your clients and co-workers trained on user ID and password security? What policies should you set? Here you'll find information on user ID and password security, as well as user ID and password privileges and federation. Also receive lessons on how to manage and secure your clients' usernames and passwords from logon to logoff.