None of us like passwords.Well, except for the good they do for us.
New research from NIST helps us to understand better ways to build passwords, and Visionlink has released an upgrade to its CommunityOS 2 platform in response.
The most fundamental change in the standards by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), is about the frequency of forcing password changes. Survey says? Never.
That's right: in common use, requirements to change passwords every 30 or 180 days, as examples, result in less secure passwords.
The second major change concerns a previous recommendation to mix letters and numbers. Gone. And again, this is because the complexity causes real-world users to use passwords that can be broken too easily, and also because automated password breakers can easily deal with something like "st0rmC1ouds."
Repeated patterns (aaabbbccc) and sequences of adjacent keys on keyboards (jklnm), and common passwords are further examples of what we all should av…
