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Hashing: What You Need to Know About Storing Passwords
Cybersecurity isn’t always a battle to keep hackers out at all costs. Sometimes it’s actually about making the costs just not worth the effort. This is particularly true when it comes to ...
A Brief Summary of NIST Password Guidelines
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been substantially revising its password guidelines since 2017. Previous recommendations have been changed, including combining symbols, letters, and numeric to create complex passwords; changing ...
Need Help Auditing for Compromised Passwords?
Password audits have become more difficult. New data breaches expose credentials every day. These are quickly fed into hackers’ cracking dictionaries, changing which passwords you need to keep out. Verizon’s DBIR found ...
Identity and Access Management has a Password Problem
Recent research from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) found that a staggering 60% of organizations have experienced a security breach in the past year. Digging into the details, the leading source of breaches ...
8 Scary Statistics about the Password Reuse Problem
As we rapidly move everything online in response to the global pandemic, this has put passwords front and center again. With the latest Marriott breach, it’s like groundhog day when it comes ...
Employee Account Takeover in the Age of COVID-19
Account takeover for employees, customers, and users has become a real issue since the COVID-19 outbreak. Here is why that is and what organizations can do about it. Since its discovery in ...
Creating a NIST Password Policy for Active Directory
NIST recommends rejecting passwords used for online guessing attacks and also eliminating periodic password expiration- unless the password is compromised. While these requirements make sense given current cyber threats, they don’t precisely ...
The Benefits and Drawbacks of Password Complexity Rules
In recent years, cybersecurity experts have called into question the usefulness of password complexity rules. Password complexity rules have existed in some form since the internet and email became mainstream. They have ...
Root Passwords: The Root of Password Problems
The average online user has over 90 accounts between personal and work accounts that require a password. That is a daunting number of unique passwords to memorize. In an effort to remember ...
Cracking Dictionaries: What You Need to Know
Passwords are the standard authentication factor across sites and systems, but how we deal with passwords has changed over time. Today, password hashing is a critical security measure organizations should leverage to ...
