Password Reuse And Password Management: Password Security And Security?

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This topic is about password reuse and password sharing whereby password reuse is a practice that might be dangerous to any organisation’s security if exercised continuously by employees. This is a process of using the same password for a long time after it was reset or expired. And password sharing can be the process of employees giving each other’s password to use if for example one employee is not at work he or she can ask the other one to give his or her password so that one can perform I specific task. These two practices might be increasingly the risk to enterprise security breaches. In some cases it might be of the organisation’s benefit that users are sharing a password may be to perform a certain task in the absence …show more content…

Password management is a multistep process that takes a few years for companies to hold, according to Cunningham. There are certain necessary steps to securing a company and several aspects to that end.
"It is a matter of education for the employees to educate them on the hazards and risks," Cunningham said. "There's a policy aspect of it: If you're accessing our financial application, 'thou shalt not use that password for anything else in your life.' And then there are tools you can use to help automate that process for the employees, such as a Password Bolt. Maybe they don't know what the password is, but they can log into the Password Bolt and the passwords are generated for them." All this can be achieved through policies and the policy must be enforced and be audited to ensure adherence to this …show more content…

For example in the new technology if someone can access the Wi-Fi then he or she can have access to the devices that are connected in that network environment. With the new data in hand, Bonneau found that 49 percent of users whom he was able to match across both sites had the used the same password for their login credentials. Six percent of them differed their passwords by changing capitalization or adding a small suffix (that is, something like "Password" and

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