Companies Should Stop Telling Employees to Keep Changing Their Passwords

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Studies have found that mandatory password changes can make a corporate network more vulnerable, not less

Stuart Madnick is the John Norris Maguire Professor of Information Technologies at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founding director of the Cybersecurity at

MIT Sloan research consortium. At least once a year—but every two or three months in many offices—we all receive the corporate email telling us our network passwords are […]

 

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Yes, because no one can remember them all!

Of course.. what a new

It also can prevent large login compromise from undisclosed credential hacks that are left for months or years. Can/should. Crappy language. Hackers often don't utilise compromised credentials for long periods of time to monetise.

'Life After Google' genuine security...

Let's hope so!

I have atleast 8 passwords, so when I F up, I lock myself out 8 times

acedtect And users who's companies use okta are still forced to change them every 90 days, even though all the experts say this is a horrible practice.

Abso-Freakin-Lutely!$

123456 for everything

I've been saying this for years. No one can remember their latest password, so they write it down.

same same known is getting regular

Because greedy corporations, we don’t even have face mask. We don’t have basic antibiotic . medication, we only play with money numbers! All because greedy Wall Street!

Yep, I’m a systems administrator. I have said for years, a requirement for a complex password means I will write it down and tape it to my computer, and generally my password has a number at the end I increment if frequent changes are required.

Duh.

Been saying this for years...can’t remember the password so write it done...😦

Old news!

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Not hard to remember the incremental number you've just changed at the end of your password!! 😋

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THANK YOU! I'm darned sick of having to change my work password, every 3, darned months!

Good article. But misses that NIST recommends multifactor authentication when anything important is involved.

My work around: password1, password2, password3, password4 This isn’t safe 😂

Welcome to 2020! This has been a known issue for a long time. I hope corporate is listening.

Really? 👀 grambling_rys20

lol post it notes! I used to know somebody that sticks it on their desk. You need to get a passwrd manager phone app that does all that including auto-generating new passwords, storing.

This is so old news. Most password policies are idiotic and counterproductive.

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Tell that to Microsoft

Pretty obvious no? If you have to change your password a lot, it won't be very secure

New that 20 years ago

Oh ffs...!

Surely hope this is accurate... passwords do not necessarily change on the same cycle which makes keeping track of them a royal pain...

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