Managed Passwords Post 2

You Change Your Clothes. You Change Your Oil. Make Sure You Also Change Your Passwords. An alert pops up on your computer: It’s time to change your password again. Sigh. Fine. You’ll just change from password4! to password5! and— Not so fast. Regular password changes are meant to make sure that even if someone gets your login credentials, they won’t be able to use them forever. But if you just make a tiny change or add a digit to a sequence, it’s easy for a hacker with the old password to crack the new one using a “brute force” attack. So what’s the best way to keep your passwords strong? Here are some tips: 1. Establish a company “password refresh” policy. No matter how big or small your business is, make sure you have a policy for setting and refreshing passwords. For example, don’t allow people to use basic dictionary words. Don’t allow identical strings of characters from previous passwords. And make every password unique—i.e., not one that somebody’s used for a different system. Educate your team about good “password hygiene” and how weak changes or reusing passwords can put both your organization and your users’ personal accounts at risk. 2. Change your passwords regularly. 3. Change passwords immediately if they’re shared or breached. If you’d like to learn more about how to manage your passwords, let us know. Next time, we’ll explain how to make sure you know who has access to your systems, and why it matters.

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