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Know your guidelines Longer is better
Your organization has its own policies for New research says longer passwords
password security. Know them and push are harder to guess. “Wine” is short;
them to the limits! If they allow passwords “1998dontdrinkwinewithbadchee$e-
of 8-20 characters, always make it 20. 2002worstweddingEVER” is long.
Don’t repeat
Never share passwords
Don’t reuse passwords. If you’ve already
Passwords are like toothbrushes.
used a password for another account, or
Change them regularly and never
used it previously for the same account,
share them with anyone!
invent a new password.
If it hasn’t
worked before … Don’t use common substitutions
Password1
Know your common passwords. E 3 It’s become common practice to replace
123456 “Password1,” “123456,” “admin” letters with similar-looking numbers and
L 1
and “qwerty” are all common symbols. These are known substitutions
admin
passwords that hackers will and will not help make a password stronger.
always guess.