All other methods had failed. Strong passwords – nope. Two factor anything – nope. A robust training program regarding safe management of login credentials – no dice. Nothing worked. Except, it was hoped, this one last final solution
Finding volunteers had been difficult. Partly it was due to incompatible personalities, but mostly it was due to a fundamental reluctance to let go. Old habits died hard, and so at length only a few viable candidates were found
It would have to do
Soon, the new system was in place. In order to log in, you had to get the system administrator purring, and then keep it purring. The theory being that those trying to break into the system would be too stressed to multitask properly, and thus unable to make progress
So far, the system seemed to work perfectly