{"id":7036,"date":"2014-12-16T10:06:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T15:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=7036"},"modified":"2020-02-26T10:58:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T15:58:30","slug":"false-perception-of-it-security-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/false-perception-of-it-security-passwords\/7036\/","title":{"rendered":"False Perceptions of IT Security: Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the second post in a series about the false perceptions 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. So, what exactly is a strong password?<\/p>\n

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

One problem is that we are not even sure what a strong password is. Many people think that a strong password is a complex string of random letters, numbers and special characters. However, when looking at it from a security perspective, rather than a cryptographic perspective, a strong password does not have to be completely random and, therefore, incredibly 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