{"id":5231,"date":"2014-12-16T10:21:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T15:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kasperskydaily.com\/uk\/?p=5231"},"modified":"2020-02-26T15:10:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T15:10:45","slug":"false-perception-of-it-security-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/false-perception-of-it-security-passwords\/5231\/","title":{"rendered":"False Perception of IT Security: Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the second post in a series of blog posts regarding the false perception of IT- security<\/a>. In this post we will describe some of the issues associated with password management. As you know it is quite important to have a strong password, but what is a strong password?<\/p>\n

When asking random people about passwords, they always agree that having a strong password is very important, but it is also very difficult to remember all these passwords. I get the feeling that instead of trying to come up with a good solution we simply give up and use that as an excuse to have a poor password policy.<\/p>\n

One problem is that we don\u2019t even know what a strong password is. A lot of people think that a strong password is a complex string, with random letters, numbers and special characters. But when looking at it from a security perspective, rather than from a cryptographic perspective, a strong password does not have to be completely random, and therefore super-difficult to remember.<\/p>\n

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Remembering long lists of #passwords<\/a> require us to do something we may not enjoy: study. https:\/\/t.co\/Dnbt1Dju5E<\/a> #security<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kaspersky (@kaspersky) October 21, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n