Selling your corporate password? You may want to think twice
A recent report in many of the CIO/CSO magazines claims that the astonishing results from a recent survey by Vanson Bourne, an independent research firm, claiming that about one out of every four employees would be willing to sell their company password to an outsider.
While those 25 per cent would be willing to make a buck by selling access to the information, the majority of responders said they’d need serious coin to make the transaction, asking from $1,000 or more for the credentials. Some would do so for as little as $100.
While much has been published recently about a wide variety of technologies looking to do away with passwords, such as the Amazon’s “selfie” password and Microsoft’s “hello” facial recognition, these technologies are still a long way from being widely adopted and readily available for use, so organisations still need to focus on mitigating password issues.
