What is your greatest weakness? It’s the question that can send chills down any job seeker’s spine. Your interview can be going perfectly, you can feel 100% comfortable with your prepared responses, and then the ugliness of that question emerges from the shadows and you’re done. Game over. You may fear that any answer you give will be the rationale for the company to not hire you but if you put a consistent level of preparation into exploring your weaknesses, it can be the final piece that sets you apart.

Questions about your greatest weakness are not just designed to catch you off guard, they are designed to further reveal your work ethic and character. Hiring managers look for candidates who are aware of their own faults and are actively working to make the necessary improvements to themselves. So, the best responses to these types of questions have all of the following:

• A legitimate fault. No employer wants to hear how you work too hard or are too dedicated to your employer. It’s like a politician at a debate saying his greatest weakness is loving America too much: no one will believe it. Even worse, you might be construed as arrogant blowhard.

• Some preparation behind it. Never try to pick out a fault on the spot. Impulsively choosing a personal weakness without any forethought can hurt any credibility you’ve built up. At the same time, you shouldn’t use a scripted, inflexible answer. The best option is a happy medium, where you choose a weakness from a list you have prepared that suits the tone of the interview up to the minute.

• A story about your progress. Everyone has one weakness or another but a hiring manager wants to hear about the ways you have conquered yours. Start by explaining how you learned about the specific weakness (this shows you are receptive to feedback). From there, you want to discuss your success counteracting this negative attribute. If you’re far from your projected goal, don’t risk bringing it up. Additionally, if one of your former weaknesses is a key requirement for the job, don’t mention it. You risk slashing your chances for the job even if you’ve long since mastered that flaw.

So, if you are asked about your weaknesses, don’t cower away from them in fear. Just keep control over what you reveal and always focus on the strides you’ve already made. That way, all of your hard work will show through and you’ll be seen as the hard working, ideal employee that you really are, faults and all.

by James Walsh

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How they did it

The Ulsan Institute of Technology, partnering with Samsung, broke through the next barrier in wearable technology when they attached an LED to an ordinary contact lens, creating the smallest display screen known to man. Just as the public begins to reconcile with the price and privacy concerns of Google Glass, innovators have already presented the next generation of wearable tech.

Using a mixture of grapheme and silver nanowires, South Korea’s Jang-Ung Park and his team were able to attach a single pixel to an everyday contact lens. The contact turned display screen was then tested in a rabbit’s eye where, to the pleasure of the development team, no irritation occurred.

While it may be a far cry from a fully capable display, and leagues away from the operational Google Glass, the fact that this technology is already in development speaks to the rapid rate of growth the industry has experienced in the past decade. It is also not surprising to see Samsung as the driving force behind the invention that could put Google Glass to shame.

Is this the next big thing in the tech world, and will Google Glass be outdone before its release date? Probably not, but it’s still hard to wrap your head around the revelation of a distant future before the not so distant future has even come to pass.

By Kevin Withers

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If you’re a part of the graduating class of 2013, the good news is that unemployment for college graduates is down to 3.9 percent. The bad news is that nearly half of recent graduates are working low wage jobs outside of their fields. That means, with a whopping anchor of debt, many members of Generation Y are employed in positions that didn’t require them to ever set foot on a college campus. So, if you end up in this situation, how can you quickly get from just treading water to speeding over it with Jet Ski throttle?

• Apply often. If you end up taking a job just to keep yourself afloat (food, rent, and certificate authenticated Game of Thrones memorabilia aren’t free), never get too comfy or complacent. Apply to new jobs on a regular basis, do it daily if you can, but don’t apply indiscriminately. If a position requires years of experience or a mountain range of unfamiliar skills, don’t waste your time. Apply elsewhere. On the other hand, if a job requires just one year in the field or a small mound of unfamiliar skills, it might be worth a try. Academic experiences or internships can often be a strong substitute and you can always learn on the job.

• Keep your skills razor sharp. Whether you’re working a register or a fry cooker, the education you’ve gained might be rusting away. Under such monotonous daily tasks, your knowledge can easily atrophy if you aren’t regularly stretching your intellectual muscle. So keep yourself sharp on your own time. Dig through industry blogs, participate in your online community/LinkedIn groups’ discussion boards, and attend any relevant seminar in the region. If you can, volunteer your skills at a local nonprofit – it’s a great way to add to your resume while making real social contributions.

• Network like mad. Ask everyone you know (family, friends, former teachers, and your blood nemeses) if they know about any openings in your field. If you exhaust those groups, reach out to anyone you meet. Make yourself known like a less obnoxious politician (don’t blast people with infomercials or prerecorded telephone messages). Get known in your community by attending career fairs and connecting with your peers on professional social media sites. Your network, both locally and all over the web, will balloon and ultimately connect you with something.

• Pursue an internship. If you haven’t already, now is the perfect time to pursue an internship. Summer internships are mostly filled for now but you may be able to find something for the fall. If you’re going to be in a low paying job anyway, you might as well do so while learning the ropes of your industry in a hands-on way. The opportunity & knowledge could lead to permanent employment with the company or any number of others. At the very least, it will provide you with a resume that doesn’t look so bare bones.

Together, these practices and experiences can help to forward your career over the next few years. Even if the results aren’t immediate, you are also building up your problem solving skills and sooner or later, you’ll strike land with a relevant job that will set you on the right track.

by James Walsh

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You can end up tying your brain into a knot trying to memorize all the dos and don’ts of the job interview process. Thankfully, we can always rely on the movies to help us unwind.

Use the following job interview scenes from movies to learn a few painfully obvious interview mistakes to avoid (and enjoy a good laugh in the process).

Owen Wilson as Dupree; You, Me, Dupree (2006)

Dupree: “I’m a people person, very personable. I absolutely insist on enjoying life. Not so task-oriented. Not a work horse. If you’re looking for a Clydesdale I’m probably not your man. Like I don’t live to work, it’s the other way around. I work to live. Incidentally, what’s your policy on Columbus Day?”

Hiring Manager: “We work.”

Dupree: “Really? The guy discovered the new world. I’m afraid to even ask about Victory Over Japan Day.”

The Lesson:

You know all those attractive words that show off your accomplishments in the workplace? It’s still a great idea to use them, so long as you don’t put the word “not” in front of them. Also, discussing paid holidays should be left until after you are offered the job (In the case of Columbus Day, leave it out altogether).

Ben Affleck as Chuckie Sullivan pretending to be Will Hunting; Good Will Hunting (1997)

Chuckie: Nobody in this town works without a retainer guys. You think you can find somebody who does, I’ll tell you you have my blessing. But I think we all know that person isn’t going to represent you as well as I can.

Hiring Manger #1: Will… our offer is eighty-four thousand dollars a year…

Chuckie: (sighs) Retainer! Retainer…

Hiring Manger #2: You want us to give you cash right now?

Chuckie: Whoa now I didn’t say that. Allegedly, your situation – for you – would be concurrently improved if I had two hundred dollars in my back pocket right now.

The Lesson:

Unless it is specifically stated in the description of the job posting, do not ask for a retainer agreement. You’re not a lawyer.

Adam Sandler as Robbie Hart; The Wedding Singer (1998)

Hiring Manager: “Do you have any experience?”

Robbie: “No, sir, I have no experience but I’m a big fan of money. I like it, I use it, I have a little. I keep it in a jar on top of my refrigerator. I’d like to put more in that jar. That’s where you come in.”

The Lesson:

Unless brought up by the hiring manager, discussing compensation is never a good idea. If you are using it as the primary motivation for working for a company, you might as well just show yourself the door.

Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham; American Beauty (1999)

Hiring Manager: “I don’t think you’d fit in here.”

Lester: “I have fast food experience.”

Hiring Manager: “Yeah, like 20 years ago!”

Lester: “Well, I’m sure there have been amazing technological advances in the industry, but surely you must have some sort of training program. It seems unfair to presume I won’t be able to learn.”

The Lesson:

It’s a bad idea to mock hiring managers. It’s an even worse idea to accuse them of presuming anything.

Although Lester does get the job keep in mind that A) this is a movie, and B) the job was operating a fast food drive through window.

Dustin Hoffman as Ted Kramer; Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

Ted: “This is a one day offer. You saw my book, you know I can handle the work. You’re gonna have to let me know today, not at the end of the holidays. If you want me, make a decision right now.”

The Lesson:

This is another example where the bold, brash maneuver actually pays off for the protagonist, and while Ted Kramer landed a far superior job than Lester Burnham, there is still one thing to remember: he is Dustin Hoffman.

The last person in the world that you want to give an ultimatum to is a hiring manager. Unless you are Bill Gates applying for a job as a high school computer science teacher, I wouldn’t recommend this tactic.

Ewen Bremner as Spud; Trainspotting (1996)

Hiring Manager: “Mr. Murphy, do you mean that you lied on your application?”

Spud: “No! Uh. Yes. Only to get my foot in the door. Showing initiative and that like.”

Hiring Manager: “But you were referred here by the department of employment, there was no need for you to get your ‘foot in the door,’ as you put it.”

Spud: “Ehhh . . . cool. Whatever you say. I’m sorry. You’re the man. The dude in the chair.”

The Lesson:

Lying on your resume is a great way to never land a job.

By Kevin Withers

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Can a mobile app outdo a telescope? Are web apps and 3D graphics engines ready to surpass microscopic imaging? The answers, in some cases, may surprise you.

These days, scientific breakthroughs aren’t exclusively made through the use of conventional tools. Web & mobile apps are becoming more prominent in the research process as IT professionals whip up solutions to augment the work of classically trained biologists, chemists, physicists, and astronomers. Welcome to the age of open source science.

With all the marzipan fluff of certain ravenously consumed apps (I’m looking at you Candy Crush Saga), it can be easy to forget that app developers can do a whole world of good. Scientific applications can bring up important questions, expanding research efforts from that of a cloistered group of white lab coats to the collaborative work of a diversified global community.

Game Changing Brain Puzzles

Mapping the intricate nerve connections of the human brain is the type of daunting task that may be beyond the limits of traditional methods and personnel. That’s why, one group of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is testing a web application that may eventually shine some light on the otherwise opaque meandering of those critical connections.

The web application is called EyeWire and gives users the chance to map the branching neural connections found at the back of the eyes of mice. The app allows users to color in nerve cells, a surprisingly challenging task, on a 3D drawing of a slice of tissue. If the project is a success, this team may modify it for the study of the human brain.

Now, it may sound like an odd way to explore our neurons but Sebastian Seung, a neuroscientist with the Institute, says that these types of programs are essential. “There’s no way the professional scientists alone can analyze all of [these nerve connections],” he says, “we need people to help us.” According to Seung, even automated computer programs fall short of the accuracy that human users have when defining the boundaries of these connections.

Essentially, what would have taken a single neuroscientist 570,000,000 years to map the connectivity of the entire brain will – with the 35,000 users and counting registered through EyeWire’s website – take considerably less time. That brings us all the more closer to true neurological understanding.

Catching a Different Kind of Bug

When most developers think of debugging, they don’t imagine their work going towards the eradication of a wriggly, 1 mm long worm. That is the very objective of OpenWorm project.

On this project, microbiologists are calling on the open source IT community to try to simulate and better understand the movements of the roundworm: a microscopic parasite that disproportionately causes big problems. Though they’re made up of a simple number of cells (just under 1,000), these organisms seem to have enough guile to efficiently locate food and reproduce all without being picked off by comparatively larger predators.

They boggle the mind and have pressed scientists to turn to an entire family of IT applications to better decode these creatures.

One is a 3D simulation engine called Geppetto which animates the movements of these squiggly pests. Another is an Enterprise application server called Eclipse Virgo. Together, they have been released as a downloadable, open source prototype which advanced coders can dissect and alter in outside-the-box ways. With this prototype, the project can make exponential strides that were otherwise inconceivable.

Shooting for the Stars

For years, only those in possession of a telescope were capable of mapping out the night sky but as urban centers grow, light pollution is making that a difficult task. Astronomers are looking to grab further intel on stargazing conditions across the globe and using mobile applications to clear up the big picture.

Both Android & iOS platforms sport apps that empower an army of citizen scientists to collect data on the constellations above their heads. Through the Dark Sky Meter and the Loss of the Night App, users can measure light pollution and add to a real-time map that analyzes trends over time and provides researchers with insights on how to control it.

Getting Involved

Best of all, these aren’t the only open source projects in the works that call on the skills of IT professionals. New scientific research projects are starting all the time and calling on the IT community to help collect data and test hypotheses through open source contributions.

Even if you’re just interested in adding to scientific research any way possible, you can get involved with open source initiatives through websites like SciStarter, which regularly identifies scientists in need of an extra hundred hands and minds.

So really, the question maybe not be whether an app can outdo a telescope but whether you can make an app that can outdo a telescope?

by James Walsh

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The only thing more consequential than switching jobs is making the decision whether or not to relocate yourself and your family to a new town or city. While a new career opportunity may sound great at first, the costs of moving, both financially and personal, may be too much to burden at this point in your life. Relocating your family is a big step, and should not be taken without much consideration, so before you set out to make the big move consider these questions first.

Is this where I really want to live?

The most important factor to take into account when considering a move is location. Where are you going to live? The United States has one of the most culturally and geographically diverse landscapes in the world. Where you will be moving to may feel a lot different from where you live, and many that do relocate to a new area tend to regret it later.

To put it concisely: live where you want to live, and choose our work location from there. Unless you are struggling to find employment and are facing delinquent payments on your rent or mortgage, think long and hard about what type of place you want to live in. If you love the feel of city life, don’t move out to a rural Midwestern town. Consider the locations of mountains, lakes, beaches, as well as the general feel of the area.

Work can be stressful, which is to be expected, but your time off should be exactly what you want it to be. Why settle down in a place that doesn’t suit you?

Is this the right job for me?

This should undoubtedly be asked by anyone who is mulling over a job offer, but the stakes are raised once accepting the position involves uprooting your entire livelihood. The worst possible scenario of relocating for a new position is to end up in an area that you don’t like while also having the job that caused the move turn out to be quite different than you expected. Ask yourself if there is a rewarding future with this company? Do the benefits and pay outweigh the costs and stress of moving? Make sure you are absolutely positive that this is the right career decision before you make the big move.

Can I afford it?

Moving is not as easy as throwing everything you own into truck and driving it to a new location. There are plenty of costs to consider. The truck, professional movers, gas, hotels, food, and new household items are all things to consider. This can all add up to take a large chunk out of your savings or put you into debt. Also, consider what is left on your mortgage as well as the current real estate market. If you rent, calculate the cost of living in your new location. Before accepting a job offer, ask the company if they provide relocation assistance. Do not assume that they will automatically pay for your expenses.

What does my family think of this?

Finally, take into account the opinions of your family and friends. Although you should branch out and do what you want to do, work where you want to work, and live where you want to live, it is always best to consider how those closest to you feel about your move. Think about who you are leaving behind and how they will be affected by your absence.

If you are married and have children, ask them how they feel about leaving their home and friends behind. Are you taking your spouse away from their family? Are you pulling your kids out of the school they have attended all their life? Will your spouse be able to find a job that they will be happy with? It doesn’t have to be the primary factor in making this decision, but never exclude those closest to you altogether.

By Kevin Withers

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In a fast-paced job market, one second you may be master of competitive techniques and the next, you may be clinging to a set of quaint antiques. According to Google cofounder Larry Page, the problem for many modern businesses and professionals is that they feel satisfied enough when they improve their business, product, or skills by only 10%. This type of approach at best keeps you aligned with the rest of the pack and at worst, in his words, leads them to “decay slowly over time.”

So, where does the problem lie?

Larry Page speculates that this type of incremental improvement is how most people feel comfortable. When we push forward into risky, ambitious challenges, we exponentially increase our chances of failure. The pursuit of an emerging, untested technology or an exhausting, mind-wracking project requires a lot of work and may not even provide the expected payoff. In younger generations, this fear of failure seems to have particularly taken root.

According to the Wall Street Journal, many people have hunkered down in survival mode thanks to the recession but Jeff Selingo, a columnist with The Chronicle of Higher Education, feels the problem goes further than that. In a recent article, he discussed the risk aversion of recent college grads. In his opinion, most universities function like vocational schools that simply train students for limited job functions. When opportunities to take risks during their formative years aren’t present, college students are less capable of taking risks and making that bold step outside the bounds of their comfort zone.

What’s the solution?

If you follow Page’s approach at Google, you strive to improve yourself to 10 times your current capabilities. That can be a bit vague, so Jeff Selingo recommends a more manageable approach: expose yourself to unfamiliar situations and allow yourself, at times, to fail.

Jumping into an unfamiliar project or situation forces you to approach a problem with a whole new perspective. In these situations, you can’t entirely rely on a typical fix or frame of mind. You have to innovate, think outside-of-the-box, and explore foreign ideas that might give you the ability to overcome completely new challenges. Even when you fail during these projects, you will gain valuable lessons and build your repertoire in ways that were otherwise unimaginable.

So take a risk. Reach out to improve yourself by 10 times your current potential and even if you fail, you’ll have gone further than all the other 10 percenters.

by James Walsh

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There is good news on the horizon for recent and prospective computer science majors. According to a 2013 report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there will be two jobs available per every graduate with a computer science degree over the next ten years. While these statistics may be pleasing to the ears of young job seekers in the Information Technology fields, employers fear that there will be a shortage of workers with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science to fill their demand of skilled workers.

The numbers

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 51,474 students per year are projected to graduate with a degree in computer science. Simultaneously, 122,300 jobs requiring a degree in computer science are expected to become available (see chart below). These trends are predicted to last at least until 2020. Unless major steps are taken to steer children towards the Information Technology fields, the growing concern of obtaining and retaining top talent will continue to be a major source of stress for businesses.

As of now, there doesn’t seem to be an ample amount of progress in the way of generating more workers with computer science degrees. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, approximately 1,650,000 bachelor’s degrees were conferred in 2010, with the largest amount comprising of majors in business (358,000), social sciences and history (173,000), health related programs (130,000), and education (101,000). Computer science majors ranked significantly lower than the top degrees earned and, sitting more towards the middle of the pack.

To further exacerbate the shortage of Information Technology workers, the number of computer science degrees fell 27% from 2005 to 2010. Employers in the field are now beginning to recruit skilled workers from abroad to fill the overabundance of positions they currently have open, a subject of controversy in its own right.

What is being done to combat this

The government, school districts, and many concerned adults have taken notice of the overall shortage of students entering the field of Information Technology. What is also a case of concern is the decreasing competitiveness of American children in science and mathematics. Compared to the rest of the developed world, American children have dropped into the high twenties and low thirties in the international ranking. These disappointing figures have schools scrambling to focus their curriculum so that more high quality STEM workers (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) can someday enter the work force.

Educate to Innovate, an initiative started by President Obama in 2009, focused on the overhaul of the education system to help equip children with the necessary skills to enter STEM fields like Information Technology. The program also granted additional funding for science based programs as well as training to more than 100,000 new math and science teachers. The goal was to place US children higher in international test rankings, all the while creating more skilled professionals, but the full effects (if there are to be any) have yet to be felt in the workforce.

The good news for potential job seekers

In the meantime recent computer science majors will have the full scope of a needy marketplace filled with employers seeking their skills, and the integration of cloud technology and mobile applications have pushed this need to new heights. Good news for anyone currently in the hunt for a job in this booming industry.

By Kevin Withers

View the full 2009-2010 National Center for Education Statistics Report here
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With the mountain of choices a job seeker must make before and during the job interview, the choice of what to eat probably seems arbitrary by comparison. As long as you eat something that keeps you from keeling over with hunger pangs, that should be good enough, right? Not if you want to give your best performance.

Unlike a cartoon locomotive, you can’t just shovel just any foods into your mouth and expect wonders from your internal engine. To properly regulate your thought process, problem solving skills, energy, and anxiety levels, you need to provide your body with proper nutrients that can sustain you through the course of the interview.

For Clear Thinking:

Antioxidant rich fruits and Omega 3 rich fish or nuts are great ways to boost your short-term brain functionality. Just through daily operations, your brain & body create byproducts known as free radicals which in great numbers can subtract from the ability of your cells to perform properly. By eating a few servings of blueberries, cranberries, salmon, or walnuts, you can keep your brain healthy and ensure that you can quickly grab on to strong answers for each interview question.

For Problem Solving:

The strength of your problem solving skills is in direct correlation to your dietary choices. Processed foods or those high in hydrogenated fats or high fructose corn syrup can rob your brain of the traction needed to plow through complex problems. To help yourself thrive during technical interviews or with critical thinking challenges, you should provide your brain with a steady blood flow through foods like olive oil, avocado, or antioxidant rich berries.

For Energy:

Foods filled with high fructose corn syrup can provide you with an initial burst of energy but quickly lead to an energy level crash after you hit your peak. So, always be sure to skip the poptarts, sugar bomb cereals, or energy drinks. For an evenly distributed, sustainable flow of energy, lean foods rich in protein are the best option. Fish, eggs, nuts, and even lean cuts of chicken can provide your body with a source of fuel that surpasses sugary alternatives and guarantees the longevity of higher energy levels.

For Decreased Anxiety:

Even the most prepared job seeker can be plagued by some anxiety. Thankfully, there is a nutritional way to regain your confidence. Chemicals like magnesium & iodine can respectively decrease stress & depression levels. Magnesium is ample in foods like nuts, apricots, spinach, and corn. Iodine, on the other hand, can be found in foods ranging from dried seaweed & cod to baked potatoes & boiled eggs.

Bring them all together:

Some of the above foods earn “super food” status and can provide you with several benefits all at once. Other are goldmines for one specific crucial chemical – seaweed is off the charts with the level of iodine it provides your body. Regardless, your best bet is to combine a number of these in your morning or afternoon meal, providing your brain with a cornucopia of crucial nutrients.

On a final note, there are even some nutritional foods you should avoid before an interview. Garlic may be rich with antioxidants but if you eat garlicky food before you arrive at an interview, your halitosis may leave a bad taste in the hiring manager’s mouth. Broccoli can help with your blood flow and navy beans can decrease your anxiety levels but they can also lead to excessive flatulence, something that has never helped anyone to make a good first impression.

Ultimately, you have to make a conscious decision about your food choices, eliminating both unhealthy & some healthy options to give yourself a better chance at success. Your stomach & future are counting on it.

by James Walsh

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August 3rd, 2012 wasn’t a particularly stellar day for Matt Honan, senior writer with Wired Magazine. It was the day that all of his personal accounts (Google, Twitter, Apple, etc.) were hacked by a group hell bent on wreaking havoc with his digital life. Just for fun. Like many other tech-savvy users, his password was complex enough to withstand any brute force attack (it wasn’t 1234, his wife’s name, or his favorite member of House Lannister). His account fell due to two major problems: the daisy-chaining of his digital accounts and major gaps in account authentication.

The first problem is in the hands of the user but the second may lead businesses to put the old password (single-factor) authentication system out to pasture and replace it with a more secure two-factor authentication system.

What to expect from two-factor authentication

We are already beginning to see tech giants opt for the two-factor authentication. Twitter & Google have both implemented a system that sends a six-digit login code via SMS to your phone or alternate email account when you attempt to login from a new device or terminal. Facebook is toying around with the idea of users identifying pictures of their friends before entering their account.

Biometrics are even cropping up in greater numbers. McAfee has introduced face & voice authentication into their LiveSafe security service through built-in microphones & web cams in users’ laptops. Some are even experimenting with cornea scans, hand print, and brainwaves identifications an options for two-factor authentication. The success of any of these methods depends entirely on both the consumer & business markets.

Will it actually take off?

On the consumer side, some question how quickly this technology will be accepted. Though Twitter, Google, & Facebook may require only a bit of time to acclimate, any widespread biometrics authentication is going to be a much harder sell. For one, previous attempts to implement biometric authentication (think of the Sony Vaio fingerprint sensor) were fraught with debilitating sensor issues. Plus, most human beings are creatures of habit.

According to Alex Salazar, CEO of digital security company Stormpath, the password isn’t dead & gone quite yet. “Many of these other forms of authentication that people are experimenting with require an extra step, or two, or three and you don’t see a lot of appetite from consumers.” Consumer technology is all about simplicity and two-factor authentication systems can be contrary to that belief.

On the corporate side, businesses cannot afford to be as fickle, so the greatest changes in user authentication will begin in this sector. With client & business data increasingly stored in cloud databases with greater accessibility from across the web, one-factor authentication is no longer enough.

That’s why, you may soon see two-factor authentication like SMS or biometric systems creep into your office; they can handle the modern world in ways that standard passwords and security questions can’t. So, soon enough, you may see the stuff of every espionage film appear in your work authentications. Are you ready?

by James Walsh

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