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Month: May 2020

The SANS institute and NIST establish password expiration is no longer effective

The SysAdmin, Audit, Network and Security (SANS) institute and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has made it clear that password expiration is a dying concept.  Password expiration had its time and place, but now its time for it to fade out of our security awareness practices. View the link below for more …

NIST has spoken! Death to overly complex and ever-expiring passwords!

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has made it clear that highly complex passwords should no longer be the standard practice.  Organizations should begin instituting long passwords/passphrases without complicated complexity requirements. View the link below for more information regarding password complexity Death to Complexity, Long Live the Passphrase