RE: Passwords

Where is that locked cabinet?  If it's located in the same facility as
the system, it might not do any good in a DR situation if the building
is inaccessible.  

If you use an off-site storage vendor like Iron Mountain or Recall (more
for document storage than media storage), store the envelope with them.
That way, retrieving the password takes effort (and possibly cost) and
an audit trail of who requested the envelope will be generated.  Have
the envelope 'expire' as often as the password changes.


John A. Jones, CISSP
Americas Information Security Officer
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
V: +1-630-455-2787  F: +1-312-601-1782
john.jones@xxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Snyder [mailto:Dsnyder@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 8:10 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Passwords

We are reviewing our policy for maintaining "high-power" user passwords
in a secure location, like for QSECOFR. Right now we maintain the
password in a locked cabinet in an envelope that we replace each time
the password changes. If the seal was broken we know the password was
compromised. Does anyone have other ideas on how to maintain passwords
of users that have great authority, especially for disaster recovery
purposes, and also an easy way to change them periodically?

Dave



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