Flunking the password test > Security Products, Practices and Infrastructure

In a recent poll, researchers found that one third of the administrators queried said they had used admin passwords to access information they otherwise wouldn't have had access to. It confirms the validity of the long standing procedures of IS Auditors to check on who holds admin passwords, whether the holders are appropriate and how the passwords are used. This is another example of how many of the threats come from within. Flunking the password test > Security Products, Practices and Infrastructure