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5 5  === {{id name="Good-Passwords-Are-Hard-To-Find"/}}Good Passwords Are Hard To Find ===
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7 -The best passwords are easy to remember, hard to break, and changed regularly.  This can be a problem; if a password is too difficult to remember – meaning it meets complexity requirements and is long enough to withstand attempts to crack it – it will likely wind up on a [[note in your desk drawer or taped to your monitor>>url:https://www.nngroup.com/articles/security-and-human-factors/||shape="rect"]].
3 +The best passwords are easy to remember, hard to break, and changed regularly.  This is no mean feat, as these things do not normally coexist; if a password is too difficult to remember – meaning it meets complexity requirements and is long enough to withstand attempts to crack it – it will likely wind up on a [[note in your desk drawer or taped to your monitor>>url:https://www.nngroup.com/articles/security-and-human-factors/||shape="rect"]].
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9 9  === {{id name="How-Do-I-Choose-A-Good-Password?"/}}How Do I Choose A Good Password? ===
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27 27  Our brains can only hold so much.  [[In this survey>>url:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3515440/||shape="rect"]], 72% of the 263 participants had difficulty remembering their passwords.  The result, as we already know, is we reuse and write down passwords.  There are techniques for remembering passwords, but we can [[expect to need even more passwords>>url:https://techxplore.com/news/2018-12-passwords-ready.html||shape="rect"]] in the coming years.
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29 -REMC1 is always looking at security; you've probably heard us mention 2-factor authentication and password managers.  Reputable password managers are available for your phone as well as your computer.  If you already use [[LastPass>>url:http://lastpass.com||shape="rect"]] – which we recommended – they offer [[a way to verify password strength>>url:https://support.logmeininc.com/lastpass/help/use-the-security-challenge-lp030011||shape="rect"]] and see if your data has been compromised.
25 +REMC1 is always looking at security; you've probably heard us mention 2-factor authentication and password managers.  Reputable password managers are available for your phone as well as your computer.  If you already use LastPass – which we recommended – they offer [[a way to verify password strength>>url:https://support.logmeininc.com/lastpass/help/use-the-security-challenge-lp030011||shape="rect"]] and see if your data has been compromised.
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31 31  [[image:attach:password_managers.jpg||height="250"]]
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33 33  === {{id name="Questions?"/}}Questions? ===
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35 -REMC1 is always looking at security and you've probably heard us mention 2-factor authentication and password managers.
31 +REMC1 is always looking at security and you've probably heard us mention 2-factor authentication and password managers.  High-profile breaches make the news, but it has been reported that [[there are nearly a Billion compromised accounts>>url:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/01/hacked-and-dumped-online-773-million-records-with-plaintext-passwords/||shape="rect"]] that are published online and readily available.  REMC staff are happy to answer any questions you have on potential spoofing, viruses, malware and security.
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37 -REMC staff are happy to answer any questions you have on potential spoofing, viruses, malware and security.
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41 41  [[image:attach:digital-guardian-password-security-infographic.png||thumbnail="true" height="250"]]
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