Login and Password Security Best Practices
July 19, 2011 Category :Security 0
The following is a quick and dirty email I was placed in charge of sending to my current employers customer base. When writing it the email was meant to put as bluntly as possible the consequences of using weak passwords just after having two clients just this week being burnt by using passwords such as “12345″ or “mydaughtersname1″. The following was the email I sent out basically using the fairly simple easy for a layman to understand guidelines found within a great document I would suggest any client of mine or visitor to this site read over released from the NSA for which the link can be located at the end of this post. The following is the email I composed.
As of late the news has been filled with stories of compromised web sites leaking personal data such as email addresses and passwords all over the Internet, some of the data even comes from multibillion dollar corporations such as in recent months Sony. To help protect yourself as well as any data stored on the Internet or locally on your network I have compiled this document regarding password policies mostly put together using the National Security Agency’s (NSA) recommendations on the matter. » Continue Reading