To *** or Not to Mask: Usability Versus Security in Password Masking

On June 23, Jakob Nielsen posted an article declaring that password masking on the user interface is more harmful in terms of usability than helpful to the security of an application to which Bruce Schneier, in a June 26 blog post agreed. Both argued that masking the characters when a user enters a password [...]

Better Business Endpoint Security Solutions

I thought I would respond as a business owner to the BizFeed column published a few weeks ago about not running any endpoint protection. Certainly, you need something, and while there are numerous security suites from Symantec, McAfee, and the like that provide firewall and anti-virus, they aren’t integrated programs: more a collection of [...]