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Password Hygiene Best Practices According to a report by Verizon, 80% of data breaches are caused by weak or stolen passwords. In addition, the report found that 60% of users reuse the same password across multiple accounts, making it easier for hackers to access multiple accounts with a single stolen password. Maintaining good password hygiene is essential to protect against these threats and keep your accounts secure. Weak or compromised passwords can be easily cracked, allowing cybercriminals to gain access to our data and steal our information. Here are a few password hygiene best practices to consider, Use Strong Passwords Using strong passwords is one of the most crucial steps in maintaining good password hygiene. A strong password is one that is long and complex, using a combination of letters, numbers, and symbols. Avoid using easily guessable passwords, such as “password” or “123456,” and avoid using personal information, such as birth dates or names. Update passwords or revok...

Password Hygiene Best Practices According to a report by Verizon, 80% of data breaches are caused by weak or stolen passwords. In addition, the report found that 60% of users reuse the same password across multiple accounts, making it easier for hackers to access multiple accounts with a single stolen password. Maintaining good password hygiene is essential to protect against these threats and keep your accounts secure. Weak or compromised passwords can be easily cracked, allowing cybercriminals to gain access to our data and steal our information. Here are a few password hygiene best practices to consider, Use Strong Passwords Using strong passwords is one of the most crucial steps in maintaining good password hygiene. A strong password is one that is long and complex, using a combination of letters, numbers, and symbols. Avoid using easily guessable passwords, such as “password” or “123456,” and avoid using personal information, such as birth dates or names. Update passwords or revok...

Password Management Tools: An overview Effective password management is an essential aspect of cybersecurity. With the increasing number of online accounts and services, remembering all those passwords can be a daunting task. Password management tools provide an effective solution to this problem. This blog discusses the benefits of using password management tools and some password management best practices to be followed. Some of the key benefits of deploying password management tools are: Enhanced Security The primary benefit of password management tools is enhanced security. Password managers store passwords in an encrypted format, making them less susceptible to hacking and phishing attacks. These tools also allow businesses to generate and store complex passwords for their employees. As a result, businesses can ensure that their employees use strong and unique passwords for every account, reducing the risk of a breach. Easy Password Access and Management Password management tools ...

Password Management Tools: An overview Effective password management is an essential aspect of cybersecurity. With the increasing number of online accounts and services, remembering all those passwords can be a daunting task. Password management tools provide an effective solution to this problem. This blog discusses the benefits of using password management tools and some password management best practices to be followed. Some of the key benefits of deploying password management tools are: Enhanced Security The primary benefit of password management tools is enhanced security. Password managers store passwords in an encrypted format, making them less susceptible to hacking and phishing attacks. These tools also allow businesses to generate and store complex passwords for their employees. As a result, businesses can ensure that their employees use strong and unique passwords for every account, reducing the risk of a breach. Easy Password Access and Management Password management tools ...

Three common sense data safety reminders When it comes to smaller and medium sized businesses, anything that distracts from the day to day concerns about bringing in revenue tends to fall by the wayside. With that in mind, we have put together a list of seven things that a small business needs to prioritize if you want to keep your business up and running. Remember, a cyber attack on your data security could be the biggest threat to your revenues that you face, even more serious than a recession or a pandemic Software Everything you have uses software programs, all of which can be vulnerable to hacking. Make sure all of your software programs are up-to-date. Software companies release program updates, security patches and critical updates for their applications. In addition to providing new features or fixing bugs in the program, these updates and patches prevent cybercriminals from exploiting the vulnerabilities that exist in the program to gain access to your network and dat...

No matter how much people hear “data safety,” they still can get sloppy about their cybersecurity. One of the reasons is that there are so many constant reminders that the warnings just become that much more background noise. Today, let's do a quick review of the one you hear most about ( and most likely to forget about) Passwords. Passwords As annoying as they are (and who doesn't doest curse them sometimes) passwords are a basic and necessary evil to protect access to your data. One of the root innovations that helps sidestep the tedium of entering ( and remembering ) passwords are facial recognition and fingerprint security measures. These can be a real timesaver, but they aren't readily available across every site and device. So that leaves us with the question, what are the best practices for maintaining strong passwords and defending multiple sites, programs or devices (also known as “ good password hygiene’’)? Maintaining password best practices Simple password...