It is difficult to avoid a password when it comes to managing your cyber security, but they are often overlooked as being “something easy everyone copes with” or the policies relating to them do not add to the cyber security but detract from it.
This is why I wrote a mini-series on passwords – mostly on CyberAwake but it finished here on Smart Thinking last Wednesday. Client commitments this week, means I am pushed for time to write the Wednesday Bit, so I hope this password primer will be of some help to you.
Update
Of course I then wrote another part for Octagon Technology and another for Smart Thinking!
Back to Basics – Passwords
Back to Basics – The Password Part 2
Back to Basics – The Password Keyboard Walk Part 3
Back to Basics – Password Sharing Part 4
Back to Basics Your Password the Finale Part 5
Back to Basics – One more thing about your passwords Part 6
Passwords – Security Theatre Part 7
Back to Basics – Password Fatigue Part 8
Back to Basics – Passwords and Ordinary People Part 9
Back to Basics – Passwords. Again! Part 10
Normal service next week.
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
Further Reading
…and for the world where we no longer have to rely on passwords for security:
