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Simple Security Tips for Executives

Started by thehotaisle · 7 months ago

David Strom writes in the New York Times about how to stop your commercially sensitive data from falling into the wrong hands:
AS more small businesses rely on e-mail and instant messaging for their communications, they would do well to use a number of inexpensive methods to preserve privacy a ... Continue reading »

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  • mpennington

    3 months ago

    This is a valuable and straight forward piece of information. I would slightly expand and say to ensure that any passwords used be secure. All the above is well and good but if someone can simply guess a password it doesn’t stop any of them.

    "The analysis found that 16 percent of passwords were someone's first name, 14 percent were simple passwords, such as "1234" or "qwerty," five percent were names of TV shows or movies, four percent were "password" and three percent were passwords like "whatever" and "I don't care." If you add all of that up, weak passwords accounted for 42 percent of all the passwords analyzed." - http://www.worldstart.com/tips/tips.php/5377

    It’s fairly straight forward, use a password that utilises numbers, letters and if appropriate special characters.

    Very useful and informative article
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  • thehotaisle

    3 months ago

    Thank you for this comment. It is quite unbelievable how so many people seem to think that any old password will do.

    Steve
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