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Enhancing Password Security: Guidelines & Best Practices

Learn about the importance of password security, different authentication methods, and how to create strong passwords. Discover the balance between access and information security and essential tips to keep your accounts safe.

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Enhancing Password Security: Guidelines & Best Practices

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  1. Password Awareness

  2. Authentication Who Are You?

  3. Authentication • Something you know • Password • PIN # • Secret Handshake (OG)

  4. Authentication • Something you have • Phone • Smart Card • USB Drive

  5. Authentication • Something you are • Face Scan • Fingerprint • Iris Scan

  6. Access vs. Information Security • Balancing Act • Password Complexity • Number of Factors • Biometric Sensitivity

  7. Out of Balance Password • iPhone Password: 000000

  8. Duel-Factor Out of Balance • Who is this?

  9. Duel-Factor Out of Balance ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? • Benedict Cumberbatch – Password?

  10. Basic PasswordGuidelines Basic Rules?

  11. Basic PasswordGuidelines • Don’t Post/Text/Share Your Password • Don’t Use Just One Password for All Accounts • Don’t Use Personal Information • Beware of Phishing • Beware of Shoulder Surfing • Don’t Save Passwords in a Browser

  12. What Makes a Good Password? Hard for Computers to Guess

  13. Hard for Computers to Guess Entropy

  14. Hard for Computers to Guess • Entropy • Degree of Disorder • Randomness

  15. Hard for Computers to Guess • Entropy Factors • Password Length • Character Set

  16. What Makes a Good Password? Easy for Humans to Remember

  17. Easy for Humans to Remember Passphrase

  18. Easy for Humans to Remember Don’t Get Me Involved with Some Crazy Process

  19. Password Check http://www.passwordmeter.com/

  20. Easy for Humans to Remember Passphrase to Password DGMIwSCP

  21. Password Check http://www.passwordmeter.com/

  22. Adding Entropy DGMIwSCP D&m1W$c9

  23. Password Check http://www.passwordmeter.com/

  24. Password Contest

  25. Password Managers • LastPass • 1Password • @Keeper

  26. LastPass Demo

  27. Contest Results

  28. Information Assurance Program at UNM • http://ia.unm.edu

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