[citw150] Re: CITW 150 L3 Q5

Here are some tips about choosing a password from 
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/10274
   
  The company I work for requires us to change our password every month,  we 
can not use the same password twice, and a list of other requirements... We 
recently had a security training to bring awareness to all of the employees. A 
lot of these tips were in our training, and it is a good way to protect 
yourself.  
   
  * The password must be at least 8 characters long. The longer?the better.
  * It must not contain any part of user name.
* The password must not be word that can be found in glossary.
* It must not be based on anything that some other person can easily guess or 
find with the use of personal data (e.g. name, telephone number, birth date, 
etc.).
* The password must contain a mixture of upper- and lower-case characters, 
numbers, punctuation marks and special characters.
* The password must not be composed from:
o Sequence of identical symbols;
o Groups of numbers or capital/small letters only;
o Sequence of letters or numbers (e.g. ?abc?, ?123?);
o Sequence of letters on the keyboard (e.g. ?qwert?).
* It must be meaningless (Hint: use the first letters of a sentence which you 
know well).
* If a password is hard to remember, it is also hard to guess.
* Change your password at least every two months.
   
  Jon Cerniglia

Jayson Anuszkiewicz <jaws20093@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
    Hi Everyone!
   
  I chose to do my paragraph on Security Issues.  My focus was on Passwords and 
how stalkers can, through stalking you, use information found to guess your 
password.  They recommend not using you name, mothers Madden name, or hobbies 
you are interested in.  These are often things people use as passwords.  The 
link below is a site devoted toward offering helpful tips on password choosing 
and safeguarding.  Talk to you guys later.
   
  http://security.uchicago.edu/docs/userpassword.shtml
   
  Jayson Anuszkiewicz 
    
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