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The WiKID Blog, musings on two-factor authentication, information security and some other stuff.

same-old-song-and-dance

Here's the summary:

the-keychain-issue

I think awareness of the 'key chain' issue is increasing, which makes me happy. First, there was a post on ask.slashdot about carrying around multiple tokens and today, there was a post on the PingIdentity blog entitled Overcoming Keychain Issues with Strong Auth. He lists four possible solutions to the problem:
1. Centralized Token Service - Local authentication for username/password and a centralized service for token validation.

favorite-posts-of-2006

Here is a list of my favorite posts from 2006. Yes, these are my favorites posts by me and yes, it means I'm phoning it in for the rest of the year. Thanks for reading. I intend to kick off the year with the usual thought-provoking, yet not well-thought out

risk-and-effectiveness-for-project-evaluation

Gunnar Peterson has a post from Metricon about Bryan Ware's presentation about combining the effectiveness of a solution and the risk involved. I couldn't find the link to the actualy presentation. (I didn't have the time to go through them all.)

I think I would tie the effectiveness of the proposed security solution to the cost of capital of the overall project. It would be interesting to tie Bryan's work with my "work" on estimating the cost of capital for an information security project.

authentication-requirements-for-cyber-insurance

I was looking at AIG's IT Self Assesment (Doc file) and I have a question:

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