Meanwhile Dave from Accounting has password123 written on a post-it on the monitor.
this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2024
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and only because the system forces users to renew passwords every year and this is his third year
Year? It's like 90 days most places.
the least I've seen was 6 months. If I had to change passwords every 90 days I'd spam them with articles showing this is idiotic every month.
Quarterly is very common. It’s absurd.
Yet I have done, it doesn't work. Because what do I know? I only work in cyber security it's only my job. I'm sure Bernard the C-Suite middle manager knows better, pay no attention to all the ask toolbars he has installed.
I asked him to not do that and the sticky note is now under his keyboard.
Companies have until January 1, 2026, to create memory safety roadmaps.
Not really the same as dropping entirely
A security feature of our system is that if you don't know what you're doing you'll break it so bad IT will be called right away.
Or risk what?
rusty software incoming