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May the 4th be with you, Cinco de Mayo…World Password Day?

EAST GREENBUSH, N.Y., and WASHINGTON D.C., May 5, 2022 – After raising a lightsaber and a margarita, the Center for Internet Security wants to help raise awareness of good, strong passwords. The first Thursday in May has been designated World Password Day, a time to take a few minutes to double and triple-check the passwords we use daily.

Here are some quick and easy tips from CIS:

  • Use passphrases, rather than a password. A passphrase contains a number of words, making it easy to remember but harder to crack.
  • Don’t use words that relate to personal information. Pets’ names, children’s names, favorite teams, or anything that could be guessed by a quick search of social media.
  • Limit dictionary words. Try a combination of letters, numbers and symbols. A good example might be something like R@sesR3dV10letsBlu3.
  • Use a password manager. These are system-created, strong passwords that are less likely to be guessed. The password is stored by the password manager.
  • Use multi-factor authentication (MFA). MFA allows the user to present two, or more, pieces of evidence when logging in to an account, and is the most secure user authentication method available.

More information can be found here: https://www.cisecurity.org/insights/blog/cis-password-policy-guide-passphrases-monitoring-and-more.

About us:

The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS®) makes the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments through our core competencies of collaboration and innovation. We are a community-driven nonprofit, responsible for the CIS Critical Security Controls® and CIS Benchmarks™, globally recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data. We lead a global community of IT professionals to continuously evolve these standards and provide products and services to proactively safeguard against emerging threats. Our CIS Hardened Images® provide secure, on- demand, scalable computing environments in the cloud. CIS is home to the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (MS-ISAC®), the trusted resource for cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) government entities, and the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (EI-ISAC®), which supports the rapidly changing cybersecurity needs of U.S. election offices. To learn more, visit CISecurity.org or follow us on Twitter: @CISecurity.

 

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