Iwas going to submit this column to my editor on time this month, really, but getting online was just too hard. So I gave up. And it is late.

That would seem a weak excuse at best for poor work habits, but a recent study, Moving Beyond Passwords: Consumer Attitudes on Online Authentication, commissioned by the company Nok Nok and done by The Ponemon Group, is instructive about human behavior and the challenges your enterprise might face with identification, authentication and access.