Telework savings are real

Here's a great telework savings calculator that shows how much a company can save by implementing or expanding telework and telecommuting programs. For a great real world example, here some information from Sun Microsystems on the amount they and their employees save.

We've got a Telework Savings Calculator of our own here at SafeTelework.com, designed to show how much you can personally save in commuting expenses and carbon emissions by reducing the amount of time you spend driving to and from work.

Telecommuting Security Discussion

Interesting discussion underway at IT Business Edge regarding security considerations for telework...

Telecommuting calculator and IT checklist

Knowledge Network provides these useful tools for considering telework program implementation.

Remote Access & Telework Security Guidelines

NIST recently published an updated set of guidelines for securing computer systems for telework and remote access. The document is available here.

An innovative approach to authentication

Vidoop, as profiled here is taking an interesting approach to authentication, using the fact that humans are good at identifying and categorizing images. Basically, you select a category of images, and when you go to log in, it presents you with a grid of images, some of which fall into the category you selected. You just type in the codes printed alongside those images, and that is your "password" for that session. While a unique physical device or biometric readout remains the best authentication credential in my mind, this new approach may help to make the "password part" of authenticating a bit less vulnerable.