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Happy World Password Day! Since 2013, the first Thursday in May has been designated as a day to promote safe password practices and revisit the steps we should take to keep our password secure. Just how important are strong passwords? Let’s start with a few statistics: There is some good [...]
One of the most important things you can do to reduce risk across your organization is to crack down on password security. According to the Ponemon Institute’s 2020 State of Password and Authentication Security Behaviors Report, 50% of IT professionals reuse passwords across workplace accounts, and 49% sometimes or frequently [...]
Over 67% of ransomware attacks against MSPs were carried out through social engineering. Such attacks – now profoundly commonplace – often compromise an IT provider’s entire client list, leading to the reputation and financial damages that managed service providers are now all-too familiar with. Cybersecurity has become just as much [...]
The average U.S. citizen has at least 70 passwords for everything from email to online banking to social media. People who use a lot of technology and software in their work can have hundreds of passwords to keep track of. Any cybersecurity professional will tell you that every one of [...]
Password safety has been drilled into our heads for so long that it’s hard to imagine anyone isn’t aware of the importance of a strong password. But, in fact, Americans’ password hygiene is surprisingly poor. When it comes to personal passwords, only 3% of people use a password manager to [...]
When kids go off to college, they are faced with a whole new level of independence and personal responsibility. College students are among the consumers living most of their lives online, and the number of online accounts they create and use for everything from schoolwork to personal finance and their [...]
A few years ago, I found myself in the unfortunate position of having to settle a family member’s estate. It is normally an onerous process, but it became even more so when it came time to access the family member’s online accounts. The passwords for those accounts were written on [...]