To increase the security of your employees' user accounts, it is good practice to give them guidelines on how to create strong passwords.
A strong password:
- Is at least seven characters long.
- Does not contain your Username, real name, or company name.
- Does not contain a complete dictionary word.
- Is significantly different from previous passwords. For example, passwords that increment (such as password1, password2, password3) are not strong and could present your company with serious security issues.
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Contains characters from each of the following four groups:
Password groups
Group Examples Uppercase letters A, B, C ...
Lowercase letters a, b, c ... Numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Special characters ` ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ + { } | : " ; ' < > ? , . /