As organizations are adopting work from home culture and we are surrounded of online services, resources and devices. The passwords are the “First line of defence” to secure your data. We should pay special attention during choosing the password. In this blog, we’ll explore the importance of strong and complex passwords and will discuss how we can create strong passwords.
It’s important to pay special attention during setting up a new password whether you are creating for your work-related device or for your personal device, applications and online resources. Unauthorized access to systems, accounts, and data may lead to serious damage for both businesses and individuals. For businesses, unauthorized access by malicious attackers may result in data breaches, intellectual property theft, operational interruption, and confidential information falling into the wrong hands. Individual may also fall in trap of cyber attacker with a week and may face issue such as identity theft,
credit card frauds and financial loss.
1. Passwords must be long and complex (should be 8 to 15 characters)
2. It should be a combination of letters, numbers, and other characters (*>&%)
3. A combination of upper-case and lower-case letters
4. Avoid using your birthday, last name, or anything that would be easily guessed as a password
5. Avoid using the same password for more than one device or account
6. Passwords must be free of repetition, dictionary words, usernames, pronouns, IDs and any other predefined number or letter sequences.
The longer and complex password takes a longer time to crack or succeed with an attack by hackers. If you’re having trouble remembering all of your passwords, you can use a password manager. Password managers are applications that use an encrypted vault to store and can be opened with a master password only.
One of the simplest ways to secure your data to keep changing your password regularly. To keep your information safe, we recommend using this approach across all your accounts. According to Security Professionals, it’s a good idea to change your passwords in every 90 days. And the practice will help you with Limits Multiple Account Breaches, Limit Guesswork, Prevent Constant Access, Prevent Saved Password Abuse etc.
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is an additional layer of security which help you to protect you from unauthorized access. MFA is a procedure that needs more than one mode of authentication to validate a user’s identity.
There are three main types of MFA:
1. Something you Know – Password, PIN etc.,
2. Something you Have – Key or Smart card,
3. Something you Are – Biometric Authentication such as fingerprint, retina scan and voice recognition.
Multi-factor authentication uses two or more methods to verify and authorize a person access attempts. You can make your data and resources more secure by using MFA solution. Strong passwords are the “First Line of Defence” against cyber attackers when it comes to securing your business and identity. if you don’t take them seriously, it’s an invitation to disaster.
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