Fortinet reminded the IT teams and the stakeholders to maintain strong passwords and have a good password strategy as an essential for cybersecurity effort to protect corporate date.
According to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, ” 81 percent of breaches leveraged either stolen and/or weak passwords. That problem is compounded because one of the biggest risks to data security is the reuse of passwords across accounts. If one of the accounts is compromised and your user name and password are posted on the dark web, cybercriminals who know how often passwords are reused will simply begin to plug that information into other possible accounts until they unlock one that uses the exact same credentials.”
This is a common risk, as 83 percent of people have admitted to reusing passwords across multiple sites. Even if it is safe to reuse passwords on accounts that don’t house sensitive data – a breach there can be used as an…
