• Review: 7 password managers for Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, and Android

  By Serdar Yegulalp | 28 March, 2012 21:15

  I hate passwords. I hate coming up with them. I hate remembering them. I hate mistyping them four times in a row. And I hate getting locked out of whatever I'm trying to log into in the process.

• Startup with heavy Russian connections offers crypto authentication service

  By Ellen Messmer | 14 February, 2012 22:33

  Can a security startup based in Bedford, N.H., which relies on Russian cryptography expertise from Moscow, bring about a revolution in the way that users authenticate to gain access to websites today and secure data?

• RSA says 2012 will focus on mobile, cloud security

  By Tim Greene | 20 January, 2012 02:38

  Beyond addressing details about its big breach of 2011, RSA Security executives this week outlined its 2012 product strategy that is centered on three areas, mobility, anti-threat and cloud security.

• New system secures cellphones for Web transactions

  By Tim Greene | 07 December, 2011 08:29

  An experimental method for two-factor authentication to websites employs mobile phones in a new way to ensure that users' online accounts don't get hijacked.

• 4 simple steps to bulletproof laptop security

  By Serdar Yegulalp | 31 August, 2011 23:46

  Security: You either have it you don't. It's a matter of degrees or, as the experts prefer to think of it, layers. The more varieties of security you have, the better the odds your goods can be protected successfully from intrusion or theft.

• What Are the Most Overrated Security Technologies?

  By Bill Brenner | 25 March, 2010 06:53

  The security community has grown to depend on some basic technologies in the fight against cyber thieves, such as antivirus software and firewalls. But are practitioners clinging to tools that outlived their usefulness long ago? Were those tools ever really useful to begin with?

• Biometrics: What, Where and Why

  By Mary Brandel | 25 March, 2010 06:41

  Biometrics encompasses a variety of methods for ensuring identity based on physical or behavioral traits. Conventional identifying traits include fingerprints, face topology, iris structure, hand geometry, vein structure, voice, signature and keystroke recognition. Emerging technologies analyze characteristics such as gait, odor, and ear shape. Rather than being used in isolation, biometrics systems are increasingly becoming multimodal, an approach that serves both to increase security and overcome failure-to-enroll problems.

• Using Biometric Access Systems: Dos and Don'ts

  By Mary Brandel | 18 March, 2010 06:41

  Considering a biometric access system? Experts offer practical advice in these dos and don'ts.

• Password Seeks Partner For Long-Term, Secure Relationship

  By Bill Nagel | 05 May, 2009 09:25

  Passwords have been standing guard over our computer user accounts seemingly forever; for a long while, and for most purposes, they could go it alone.

Whitepapers about authentication

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  Effective and Painless Multi-Factor Authentication

  There is a new, multifactor authentication approach that not only strengthens identity authentication but does so in a way that does not introduce the burdensome cost, user inconvenience, and administrative complexity that have limited the adoption of multi-factor authentication by small and mid-sized businesses.