Protective Gear for the Workplace
A helmet is a biker’s number one method of protection in a crash, dip or fall. Did you know that your password is the number one method of protecting your data from would be thieves, hackers and other criminals? You can help protect your data by using complex, hard to guess passwords like the examples above.
Most password cracking software can guess your password in a matter of just a few short seconds if you use simple passwords, such as the name of your child, or spouse. That’s because your password is a word! In short, password cracking programs use the dictionary to search for your password, but it even makes it easy for people who know you to guess when we use common, or well known things about us as passwords.
Use these simple tips to make creating a complex password easy, rememberable by you, but hard for hackers and thieves to figure out.
- Use both letters and numbers
- Don’t use any personal information
- Intentionally misspell words
- Combine words or use a phrase
- Use upper and lowercase together
- Use special characters (#$%^&)
- Use as many characters as possible
- Avoid words listed in the dictionary
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