Chapter 32
Explain Password Best Practices
Passwords, passwords: from signing in to your computer and email to checking your friends’ lives on Facebook, passwords are everywhere. They’re designed to prevent the wrong people from accessing your information. However, a weak password gives the illusion of protection. In this chapter, you learn about the essentials of password best practices: password length, password complexity, password history, password expiration, password reuse across sites, password managers, and password reset process. This chapter covers objective 6.5.
Foundation Topics
Password Length
How long should a password be? The ...
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