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"Beyond Passwords: Two Factor Authentication Comes to the Cloud"

This post was written by Jack Newton: "Over the last decade cloud computing vendors have invested heavily in making Software-as-a-Service secure as possible. Daily security audits, SSL-based encryption, and SAS 70 Type-II-certified data centers are now the norm, rather than the exception, and data stored in the cloud is now privileged to receive some of the best security technology can afford.

However, as with any security framework, cloud computing security is only as good as its weakest link, and in many circumstances the weakest link is the password used to access a web-based application...

To help combat any human-introduced weakness to the security equation, many security-focused services are deploying a technology called two factor authentication..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 20 September 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on September 21, 2010 (boomark / email).