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Password Security Standards & Policies
for Business security. Attacking those issues head on will
provide maximum return on investment.
Organizations spend millions of dollars on
cybersecurity defenses and consultants. Beyond
traditional tools like firewalls, anti-virus and system
information and event management (SIEM), it
is easy to get caught up in sophisticated threat
detection using artificial intelligence, machine
learning, user behavior and analytics. All of these
tools have their place and are very valuable;
however, one problem looms large. Implementing a password security policy –
a two step process
Passwords are frequently the only thing protecting
confidential business plans, intellectual property,
communications, network access, employee
census information and customer data. Due
to human error, negligence and simple lack of
knowledge, passwords are the weakest link in
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Step one: The first step in virtually every
cybersecurity framework is to take an inventory of
your assets and then determine the risk of losing
each of those assets.
Step two: The second step is to implement policies
according to the risk levels assigned to those
assets. The most critical part of these policies is
access control.
Given that passwords will be an integral part of any
access control policy, password security policies
must be put into place. ◊
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