Security, Privacy, Leadership, Passwords, PasswordComplexity, PCI, SystemAdministrators, Authentication, Captcha
Password123! - Why Does Authentication Have to Be So Hard?
Password complexity and authentication has always been a subject of contention both for users and system administrators. Many assume that forcing users to create more complex passwords, and changing them frequently, will lead to greater system safety - in theory this may be true. Given human nature, things rarely go as planned and research has shown that forcing users to comply with these additional requirements has actually had a detrimental effect on system security.
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