Educational Employees Credit Union is using a little box and the software inside to replace lists of passwords it had kept on paper, passwords that provide access to the big California credit union's network of servers.

The device also provides extensive logging and recording of user sessions on those networks-arcane information to lay people but of crucial importance to IT infrastructure specialists and to the regulators who have to be satisfied that all is secure.

"One of the regulatory people were just here and told us he hadn't seen this before in a credit union and that he was quite impressed," said Keith Allington, network security manager at $1.7 billion EECU in Fresno.

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