** World Password Day has arrived! **
In the irony of world password day and keeping your info and logins protected, Pulseway wants to share with you a guide to maximizing your passwords security.
Data has very much become the currency of the modern world and the bad guys are constantly trying to find a way to weasel in. Even in this day of tech modernity a lot of people still don’t commit to proper password security, and we get it, keeping passwords unique and updated can honestly seem like the last thing on our minds in a world where Ransomware attacks are rampant and malware is around every corner.
So in an effort to help and raise awareness for password security Pulseway want to share with you a guide on how you can maximize your password security.
We also want to know your password best practices and tips for keeping your self protected.
You can read the blog here and Happy World Password Day!
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Best practices are as follows:
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The best password strategy:
Step 1: Create password that adheres to the strictest password policy there is.
Step 2: Forget password.
Step 3: Reset password.
Step 4: Forget it again
Step 5: repeat.
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If you have the option, use a pw manager to generate random ones for things you need to use infrequently and secure passphrases for something you have to remember.
Make it something memorable only for you, and change something in it so that it cannot be guessed.
And if a system doesn’t like your choice of special character but doesn’t say which ones it will accept, stop using that service.
