Isn’t this less convenient?

Yes, it might seem like it. Using the same, simple password everywhere is probably the most convenient way to authenticate to all the services you need to log into during your working week (and your personal life). But that’s not the end of it!
We like to say that there is a scale with ‘Convenience’ at one end and ‘Security’ at the other end. Most prefer to to live right down the ‘Convenience’ end of that scale.
- However we now all understand that we have to move along that scale in the direction of ‘Security’.
- The Internet has reached a point where it is easy to find and use passwords that have been involved in breaches on other web sites, or to guess simple passwords.
- We all use so many Internet or cloud-based services now that we are signing into many services, and normally placing private business and customer information into those services.
- If you don’t take reasonable steps to follow best practice for password and secrets management now, you are really asking for your organisation to be the next target, and you won’t have many excuses if or when that happens.
So whereas no solution is perfect, it makes sense to use the best-of-breed solution to help you follow best practice, and to move the organisation somewhat down the scale from ‘Convenience’ towards better ‘Security’

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