Authentication Quotes

You need strong user authentication such as a smart card or [a] biometric [reader] or both -- something more than just certification built in to the browser, which is weak. - David Thompson

You have to know with whom you're dealing. Check them out, check their references, get a bill of sale guaranteeing authentication for the life of the item. - Lynne Keyes

You can have the same guy voting 10 times if you don't have the infrastructure to determine that the guy on the other side is who he is claiming to be. It's a challenge just getting people to get their viruses updated. Getting them to get their PKI authentication in place is something else entirely. - Narender Mangalam

What we call single-factor authentication is a basic password and ID. Now we're asking banks to use another form of identification. - Michael Jackson

What Microsoft will do is accelerate the implementation curve for secure authentication. - John Oltsik

We're making it easier for people to have some form of strong authentication. The device that you normally carry can now be your token. - Art Coviello

We wanted to control data collecting and authentication from the back end to the central database and not have to re-key information, ... Electronic forms serve as that digital connection. - Virgil

We see a major increase in organizations that use the MAC OS and Linux platforms and are seeking to implement strong authentication security solutions. Aladdin sees support of the MAC OS and Linux platforms, in addition to our broad support for the Windows environment, as an important strategic initiative that will enable us to expand our business in key markets. - Shlomi Yanai

We had a real battle and eventually got Cisco to change its default factory settings. The access points shipped from the factory with 802.1x authentication and 1,024-bit encryption, and it cannot be set back to default. - Loris Meadows

We didn't get serious about security early enough. The Internet carefully delivers that virus to your door because its job is to deliver packets and not to inquire whether the application is good for you. The 'Net by itself is doing what it should do, but we don't have intrinsic integrity and authentication. We didn't do that way back when, and it should have been done. - Scott Bradner