Keeping Passwords Hard to Predict
Understand why strong, unpredictable passwords are essential for security. Explore techniques such as avoiding default passwords, monitoring leaked password dumps, and enforcing password strength policies to reduce the risk of credential compromise and prevent attackers from easily guessing passwords.
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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