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Password Security

Password Security is the first and most basic act of securing your information and data. Using strong passwords lowers the overall risk of a security breach.

Risks

• Weak Passwords

• Password Sharing

Risk Impact

• Week Passwords

o     Password can be easily guessed

o     Critical Information Loss

• Password Sharing

o     Personal / Company’s Information disclosure to other parties


How to Stop?

  •  Don’t use the same password for different applications.
  •  If password is stolen, all the information it protects is at risk and can be used to take over all your accounts
  • Don’t use personal information as password like name, birthday, driving license, passport number etc.,
  • Don’t use dictionary words in any language or abbreviations
  • Don’t use sequence or character patterns like ‘abcdef’ or adjacent letters of your keyboard
  • Don’t use sequences or repeated numbers. Examples 1234567, 44444, birthdate(11-04-72)
  • Don’t share passwords on Phones, SMS, email

Best Practices:

• The longer the password, the tougher it is to crack. Use at least 8 characters which should include Upper case, lower case letters, numbers, and special characters.

• Use a phrase /sentence for a password to easily memorize

• Make it personal or something only you can visualize.

• Remember or store code of capital letter, numbers and special characters to help you remember password. Keep your passwords code in a secure place, out of plain sight.

• Adopt strong passwords for System, Smart Phones, Applications, Soft copy Files.


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