Last month Deloitte [Deloitte's Technology, Media, and Telecommunication, also known as TMT], came out with a 3 page report regarding passwords, how strong you think they are, and how strong they really are.
Like I've been telling you [by Blog or in person] the days of the one word password are over and you should consider using passphrases instead. An example I gave to a customer the other day was to abandon a one word password and come up with a passphrase like -
"Itrainsinspainbutonlyintheplains"
as well as substituting a $ for the letter "S", or a 0 for the letter "O"
The customer said that they didn't know they could do that and would work on some passphrases of their own. I also reminded them to come up with enough passphrases for every account. Deloitte's report noted that -
"The average user has 26 passworded accounts but uses only five different passwords amongst them".
The obstacle here is the common complaint "I can't remember all of those passwords". My reply to home users is to either use a password account utility program, or if they are using Norton 360 or Symantec's Internet Security they already have one built into the program. The common reply is: "I never knew I had this feature".
You can download the 3 page .PDF report off their website HERE.
'Nuff Said,
Brian
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