Throwback Thursday: How to improve security
There's a new security policy at this biotech company, reports a pilot fish in the know: When logging in on a PC, the username field will now be blank, and everyone will have to input the name together with the password.
"The policy is announced weeks in advance," fish says. "In spite of this, the first day is painful. A flurry of calls comes into the IT help desk regarding people not being able to log in. One is from a junior member of the payroll department who is about to leave on a two-week vacation -- in fact, her flight is later that afternoon."
"A tech tries to help her over the phone, but apparently she couldn't tell the difference between the username box and password box, in spite of them actually being labeled as such."