In this month’s Cyber Chat, Rie shares a campaign on creating safe passwords. Content sourced from Cert NZ.
Passwords are important! They protect information, whether it is yours or the organisation’s you work for.
CERT NZ* is running a mini campaign to help promote the use of more secure passwords and assist in making them easier to create and remember, so we thought it would be good to share it with you.
I am a great believer in ‘length is greater than complexity’ when it comes to passwords, having spent many years testing password security; this mini campaign is promoting just that.
There is a new term introduced in this campaign: ‘Pass Phrase’. A ‘Pass Phrase’ is just a password made up of a number of words—that’s all. An example might be ‘RugbyEggGoalHooray’.
Check out this video that shares some tips on creating the perfect password:
* CERT NZ (Computer Emergency Response Team NZ) is a Government organisation that helps New Zealand with Cyber Security.
Check out last year’s posts from Rie:
- Meet Rie Dodsworth, our ‘Cyber guy’!
- Tips for cybersecurity over Christmas
- Keeping an eye out for Ransomware
- Facebook data breach
