Pathetic vs. Powerful Passwords: Your Hackable Future?

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The Buzz: “Passwords are an integral component of security hygiene, but beyond password strength requirements, it’s largely a user-driven initiative” (digitalguardian.com). How is your password hygiene? Not to get personal, but passwords are our first line of protection against cyber criminals, so password health matters. Digital Guardian surveyed 1,000 people’s password security habits. 44% changed passwords once a year or less, 11% never. 20% experienced online account compromise. 70% had 10+ password-protected accounts online, nearly 30% had “too many to count”. In the U.S., the average email address is associated with 130 accounts. And password cracking is easy with tools like John the Ripper and social engineering that manipulates us into divulging confidential info. We’ll ask four experts – Matt Beckert at NPI, Erich Kron at KnowBe4, Michael DePalma at Datto, Alex Reid at Green Cloud Technologies – for their take on Pathetic vs. Powerful Passwords: Your Hackable Future?

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0:00.0	Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, really here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen, and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?
0:16.4	Welcome to Technology Revolution, the future of now.
0:21.6	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven trends that are shaping our future right now.
0:31.0	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now.
0:34.9	Bonnie D. Graham.
0:36.2	Bonnie in the house. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
0:39.3	I just love hearing that intro.
0:40.9	That's the voice of my partner in crime, my co-producer, Aaron Treasure.
0:45.2	I'm sorry, it's Ryan Treasure.
0:46.6	My engineer is Aaron Keller.
0:47.8	They're both at Voice America, World Talk Radio, the business channel.
0:51.5	I just love the way Ryan sounds on that.
0:53.6	So let's see what our topic is
0:55.0	today. I have a buzz quote to open the show from digital guardian.com. Let me read this and it'll
1:00.8	set us up really nicely. And this is targeted at all of you in our global listening audience.
1:06.0	So listen up. Passwords are an integral component of security hygiene. but beyond password strength requirements, it's largely a user-driven initiative.
1:17.2	What does that mean?
1:18.0	That means you're on your own, whatever you do, that's what it is.
1:21.0	So how is your password hygiene?
1:23.5	I'm talking to all of you around the world.
1:25.2	I don't want to get personal, but passwords are our first
1:28.1	line of protection against, ooh, the bad actors, the cyber criminals. So your password health
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