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Keeping Passwords Hard to Predict

Keeping Passwords Hard to Predict

Creating safe passwords is vital. Let's see some techniques on how that can be done.

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Passwords are meant to be secrets shared between a user and the server they’re authenticating to. If attackers can predict those passwords, they can bypass this defense. Here are a couple of steps we can take to keep it difficult for an attacker to predict a password.

Never use default passwords

We covered this back in Default Passwords, but it’s worth mentioning again. Never use default passwords.

Monitor password dumps for password reuse

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