Using smart cards vs. passwords for identification
A recent Datamonitor survey shows that 62% of enterprises have experienced problems relating to passwords being shared, borrowed or stolen from within their organizations. The survey of 200 enterprises also found that only 21% of the respondents are confident that passwords will provide sufficient user authentication for their businesses over the next five years. The study, “A new look at the ROI for enterprise smart cards”, was sponsored by ActivIdentity but was carried out by Datamonitor.
More than 200 decision makers were asked to identify the factors that may be changing their approach to deploying smart cards for logical and physical access. Findings include: close to 40 man hours per week would be saved by enterprises in the survey if their ID credentials were replaced by a smart card and single sign-on solution, 80% of respondents recognize that smart cards would provide benefits to their organizations, and the majority of respondents believe that enterprises in their industry are moving towards a single ID for physical and logical access. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/secureidnews-4.gif)
