{"id":4239,"date":"2019-02-05T12:51:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/?p=4239"},"modified":"2019-02-05T12:51:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:51:48","slug":"its-time-to-embrace-password-security-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/its-time-to-embrace-password-security-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Time to Embrace Password Security Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Despite their inherent problems, most users interact with their digital identities through passwords. Therefore, your enterprise must start to develop and adopt password security strategies across the network.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Why Your Enterprise Needs Password Security Strategies<\/b><\/h3>\n

Unfortunately, trusting employees to create strong passwords on their own may no longer serve as a tenable strategy. <\/span><\/p>\n

According to the <\/span>Identity Theft Resource Center\u00ae and CyberScout\u00ae Annual End-of-Year Data Breach Report<\/span><\/a> hackers continue to target and exploit usernames and passwords for their attacks, especially when users repeat their credentials across multiple accounts. Furthermore, through publicly available personal information, hackers can guess the passwords of users and apply it to all of their accounts; after that, it is only a matter of time before they find a weak link. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Adding to these issues, users continue to select and reuse passwords<\/a> annually rated as (frankly) embarrassingly weak and easily cracked. This distinct problem stems from employee fears of forgetting their passwords. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Password security strategies<\/a> encourage employees to create unique, non-guessable passwords for their digital identities thereby keeping them and your business safe. Also, password security strategies help employees remember more complex passwords, breaking their dependence on repeated or simplistic passwords. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What Do Password Security Strategies Entail? <\/b><\/h3>\n

Thankfully, you can embrace password security strategies<\/a> and identity and access management best practices simultaneously; they\u2019re basically one and the same. Moreover, password security strategies often prove fairly simple to conceptualize. Good places to start include: <\/span><\/p>\n