Strong password

Yo.. today i decide to teach you guys how to construct a strong password and how to protect your password.

How important is a password? we need them to access our email account and log in our computer. But why we need it? if there is no password everyone can read our mail right? so we need a password which is only known by ourself then only we can secure our email account.

A strong password is designed to counter password cracking program. Some of the famous password carking methods are brute force attack, dictionary attack and password guessing. A weak password can be easily crack by this password cracking program in seconds.

Strong password must at least meet ALL of the following:

oContain both lower case and upper case character, (e.g. a, b, c…, A, B, C….)
oContain both numbers and punctuation characters. (e.g. 1, 2, 3…! @ , #, $)
oPassword must be at least 10 characters
oPassword CANNOT contain any part of the username
oPassword CANNOT contain any personal information such as family name, birth date, pets name, etc.

Password Protection Standards

A strong password must enforce with a good password protection standards in order to make it more difficult to be compromise.

Don’ts

oDon’t reveal a password to anyone, this include your boss, your superior and the IT administrator.
oDon’t use a password for multiple accounts.
oDon’t share your password with anyone.
oDon’t reveal or hint the format or way that you construct your password.
oDon’t use the remember password feature in of application.
oDon’t write down your password on a sticky note and “ hide” somewhere
oDon’t write your password in any questionnaire.

If you absolute have to write down your password, write in down and keep it in a locked cabinet or if you going to safe in a computer or diskette, use encryption. Writing down a password is strongly not recommended.

And last.. at least change your password every 4 - 6 months. This can also minimize people misuse your password.

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