Re: PassMark?

[Q-Ball <qballus () gmail com>]

I would agree as well, having recently reviewed them with others in the same
field. Apart from relying on users to only enter their password if they saw
an image, the solution heavily relied on cookie usage. This works fine for
most people but a lot of corporate environments have persistant cookie
polices so this ends up being an annoyance and ineffective for this segment
of users. It also makes it susceptible to keystroke loggers due to the ease
of which the challange can be generated. I'd also have trouble justifying
this as anything other than a 2 x 1-factor solution and as such it may not
meet FFIEC guidlines.
The bigger issue, as with any other web based authentication solutions, is
what does this protect you against and the answer these days is not a lot.

Q-Ball

On 6/13/06, Randal T. Rioux <randy () procyonlabs com> wrote:
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> Gary E. Miller wrote:
> > Yo All!
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> > I thought I'd actually risk a real security question here.
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> > Any one seen the "PassMark" (www.passmarksecurity.com) security system
> > in action?
> >
>
> Yes.
>
> Bank of Bangalore^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HAmerica uses it, as well as a recent
> financial client corp. of mine.
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> I'm not impressed with it.
>
> Randy
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