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A major security problem that most organizations experience is the abundance of applications and systems that require individual user authentication. This is worsening as the number of Internet applications increases. As more companies switch to eBusiness solutions, their authentication requirements change. Businesses now have new requirements for high-end authentication.
Networking dependencies have also brought about new security requirements for authentication, with an increasing need to identify the end user. This requirement is becoming harder and harder.
Technology is advancing at a rapid pace and the difficulty of remembering usernames and passwords is becoming increasingly difficult. It is no longer reasonable for an organization to expect its users to remember long lists of username/password combinations, while still adhering to company security policies.
It is therefore not surprising that many users are reduced to writing username/password combinations on pieces of paper that are often left next to computers. This poses an extremely high security risk.
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