I am trying to get setup in a new organisation, and getting IT passwords & access is a real nightmare particularly with their excessively high security settings.
(they have internal security setting which are higher than those for external access at most banks ... though that's not necessarily a good measure).
I managed LAN access, (on the extremely locked down corporate workstation) but the internet proxy and e-mail systems are different passwords.
After a day, I rung the IT helpdesk, to get things sorted, & was told not to bother to try to co-ordinate the system passwords.
"Just write them down."
Oh! Nice one mate! So remind me, why have we got these security systems again?
I have subsequently found two more systems requiring separate passwords: the document register
and ... SAP (yuke!)
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Exactly!
Like all those systems that are set up to demand a stupidly complicated password - people tend to just put e.g. Password_12345
I'd be interested to know how many *real* security breaches happen through technical dictionary attack and how many through naughty people finding postits (or wallboards) with passwords written on them. Or files called Password.txt placed prominently on the desktop.
If an organisation is that fussed about access control, they should be using a key-fob device.
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