EDITOR ’ S QUESTION
WAYNE PHILLIPS , FIELD CHIEF TECHNOLOGY
OFFICER – ASIA PACIFIC AND JAPAN , SENTINELONE
Passwords aren ’ t going away any time soon . While biometric data , facial and fingerprint scanning all have a role in helping secure access to services , the one over-riding benefit of a password is it ’ s the something you know and not the something you are .
The latter might be simple to set up , simple to use and always available , but that means it can be read without you knowing , but the former cannot , so long as it ’ s sufficiently complex , unique , secret and not unwittingly shared it with someone else .
The downfall of passwords is the need to share them with the system you need to access , to ensure you can access them . Sharing passwords at account creation is the paradox for security and where the whole notion of trust begins . Combine passwords with as many factors as possible without increasing friction , and your chances of suffering data loss through password hacking are both extremely low and – importantly – highly limited .
Combining what you know , what you have , what you are , where you are and when you are can be a hard chain of secrets to break .
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