Beyond Passwords Passwords are at the foundation of security and access control ever since humans felt the need of securing resources and access to it. Passwords have been used and abused since millennium and the best documented example of this is “ Open Sesame ”.  The surprising fact is even after millennium passwords are ubiquitous, and mean anything but security. The World Password Day is coming up on 7th of May 2020,  let us see what we have learned in the last decade about passwords. Passwords are Pain Passwords are pain for an enterprise, rights from its users to administrators.     Pain to Manage A 2016 survey conducted by Intel Security concluded that an average person uses 27 discrete online services . For security reasons it is a must to have different passwords for enterprise applications, social networking sites and online banking but at the same time, very painful to remember all of them.  People often reuse their enterprise passwords at exter