Category: Passwords
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How Password Encryption Works
Maintaining strong password protection within a business is essential to secure sensitive data, uphold customer confidence, and avert potentially expensive security incidents. Encryption makes your password unreadable and unusable by hackers, protecting it both on servers and during internet transmission. Imagine creating a strong password, but it’s stored in plain text on a server. If a…
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Password Policies are Changing
Password policies have been changing to keep up with all the changes over the past few years. Computer processing speeds have increased which makes cracking passwords easier. Hackers are better at the psychological-side of tricking users to revel their passwords. “Best Practices” are always reacting to the latest environment, yet many companies and users alike…
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Passwords – The Struggle is Real!
We all struggle with passwords. They tend to create frustration for the user, and even though we know they are necessary, we often try to use the same password or simple passwords for everything to make our lives easier. Passwords act as the gatekeeper between the rest of the web and our personal and business…
