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Password management: Part 2

Password management: Part 2

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Password management: Part 2

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- In this session, we'll be talking more about passwords and password security. Scott gave us a foundation for password security. However, there are many other points to keep in mind when protecting our assets with passwords. We'll cover everything from password history and expiration, to password managers, and how to ensure your passwords remain private and secure. Let's get started. First, let's talk about password history. Many organizations enforce policies that prevent you from reusing recent passwords to reduce the risk of a breach. It's important to create strong, unique passwords every single time. Now, a lot of people have a question, what is the unique password? So let's pop on my computer and take a quick look here. Now that we're on the computer here, we can see this is a site that we can kind of test and see how secure your password is. So if we type in password, we can see it takes no time to crack that, right? But what if we change a little bit and maybe add a capital…

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