Two recent Blog posts (by Kearns and JBohren) refer to a damning number - the high percentage of orphan accounts that exist in most applications and most large organizations. An “orphan” is an account that belongs to some person who’s left the organization (or never existed in the first place). It can’t be [...]

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Just a bit of housekeeping on a lazy Sunday…  we’ve added the ability to subscribe to LiveBolt blog updates via email.  Just use the link in our header, next to the RSS feeds, or click here to subscribe.
And remember… only 2 days left in the IronKey Giveaway!!!  </shameless_plug>  Just click here for more info on [...]

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Folks,
Just a reminder — we’re giving away a FREE 1GB IronKey Personal USB thumbdrive ($80 value). Really a cool device — check out the geeky specs.
You need to enter before noon, on July 1st. Just make sure to read our “Personal Metadirectory for Passwords” article, and leave a comment there with your response [...]

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Indian Government Wants Blackberry Keys
The recent issues between RIM and India bring Smart Phone security under the microscope. RIM offers “secure” email and text messaging. It’s secure because it is encrypted, and because it routes through RIM servers. RIM holds the encryption keys. India doesn’t like that, and it wanted RIM to make the keys [...]

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Yesterday, I was fed up with my password mess. I had too many passwords, and despite my “method,” I was losing track of them all. I decided to work on upgrading my method. I started out looking for a replacement “password vault.”
Here are my requirements:

is highly secure, using accepted standards (i.e. - [...]

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