Legacy Single Sign-On: Novell, Evidian, IBM, PassGo, or Computer Associates?
Brien Posey - September 28, 2002

Executive Summary

As the complexity of enterprise systems increases, users are often forced to remember more and more passwords. As the demand on users increases, many users choose to write down their passwords, and by doing so, jeopardize security. Even if the users never do anything to compromise the organization’s security, they are more likely to forget passwords when multiple passwords are required. The resulting constant password resets can amount to an unprecedented cost. The solution to this problem is for organizations to implement single sign-on software across the enterprise. In this article, I’ll be comparing five leading non-web based single sign-on products to see which is the best...