White Papers for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Self-Service Password Management

NetWrix Corporation

In today's complex IT environments, users typically have multiple passwords to manage for a variety of applications or access levels. Eighty percent of all users have 3 or more passwords to manage, but many more are possible depending on their system access needs (Safenet 2004). Users end up jotting passwords on note paper, thus threatening the security of the system, or they simplifying life by reusing passwords or choosing weak ones where the system permits, even though these are unsafe security practices. Meanwhile, security-minded IT organizations often implement strong password measures which inadvertently add to the burden, requiring users to recall complex formulations and change them frequently. Compliance with auditing and regulatory requirements, such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA, further tighten the password security net and in turn, further confound the user.

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