THE NUMBERS ON PASSWORDS
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM
| Here are some reults from a survey of 3,000 IT administrators and security professionals on the use of user names and passwords for security and user authentication. | 55% of end users write passwords downat least once. |
| 51% require IT help to access applications because they forgot a password. | |
| 40% share passwords with others. | |
| 24% have at least eight user names and passwords on their system at any one time. | |
| 9% write every password down. | |
| Source: Rainbow Technologies user authentication survey | |
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