Creating good password security

Week 5:

Learn About creating good password security.

An IT Security consultant has made three primary recommendations regarding passwords:

1. Prohibit guessable passwords

o such as common names, real words, numbers only

o require special characters and a mix of caps, lower case and numbers in pws

2. Reauthenticate before changing passwords

· user must enter old pw before creating new one

3. Make authenticators unforgeable

· do not allow email or user ID as password

Using WORD, write a brief paper of 200-300 words explaining each of these security recommendations. Add additional criteria as you see necesarry.

Note your Safe Assign score. Continue submitting until your Safe Assign score is less than 25. You have three attempts to complete your assignment.

Attach your WORD doc and then hit SUBMT.