{"id":1536,"date":"2003-10-06T20:49:32","date_gmt":"2003-10-07T00:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/10\/06\/front-line-security-screen-savers\/"},"modified":"2003-10-06T20:49:32","modified_gmt":"2003-10-07T00:49:32","slug":"front-line-security-screen-savers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/06\/front-line-security-screen-savers\/","title":{"rendered":"Front-line Security &#8211; Screen Savers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1360'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/aquariuum.jpg\" width=\"357\" height=\"276\" align=\"left\"><strong>Activating<br \/>\n        a password-protected screensaver on users&#8217; desktops often provides more<br \/>\n        protection from unauthorized access than by issuing them with strong<br \/>\n      network login passwords, according to TruSecure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Their logic is interesting; most corporate security violations are internal<br \/>\n        and involve no hacking, just unothorized use and access.With strong network<br \/>\n        login technology people tend to login when they start working and leave<br \/>\n        the connection up and open throughout the day.&nbsp; They also have a<br \/>\n        tendency to write down those long passwords further increasing vulnerability. <\/p>\n<p>However, the article concludes that the greatest practical level of<br \/>\n        security available is through tokens or smartcard technology, on the<br \/>\n        theory that with a physical key you know when it has been lost, stolen<br \/>\n        or compromised.&nbsp; Maybe.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zdnet.com.com\/2100-1105_2-5086766.html\">from<br \/>\n    ZDnet<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activating a password-protected screensaver on users&#8217; desktops often provides more protection from unauthorized access than by issuing them with strong network login passwords, according to TruSecure. Their logic is interesting; most corporate security violations are internal and involve no hacking, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/06\/front-line-security-screen-savers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}