In 200- 250 words
Learn About creating good password security.
An IT Security consultant has made three primary recommendations regarding passwords:
- Prohibit guessable passwords
- such as common names, real words, numbers only
- require special characters and a mix of caps, lower case and numbers in passwords
- Reauthenticate before changing passwords
- user must enter old pw before creating new one
- Make authenticators unforgeable
- do not allow email or user ID as password