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The newest big problem with data security is the same as the old big problem with data security. It\u2019s the users. Specifically, it\u2019s the fact that most people don\u2019t bother to change their passwords more than once a year, if that frequently.<\/p>\n
Data security is a major headache for all business owners, no matter the size of your company.<\/p>\n
You can spend hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars on a top-notch, state of the art system, and still watch it all come tumbling down around you because someone used a dead-simple password or didn\u2019t bother to change it periodically.
\nHow bad is this new\/old problem?<\/p>\n
According to the most recent survey, fully 53{7e4ee7cd997d36f6dec43befd6b19c37edf0959bbf61766e988f901dd91e96d7} of users only change their passwords one a year or less. More than a quarter only change them when a system administrator instructs them to.<\/p>\n
This is crazy, especially in light of the rapid increase in major security breaches in recent years. With all the high-profile hacks, often affecting hundreds of millions, if not billions of users at a time, you\u2019d think that the message would have sunk in by now. Password security matters. It\u2019s important. It\u2019s your first, best line of defense against a major security breach, and none of that seems to matter. Users just aren\u2019t responding.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s uncertain whether this is an education issue, or something else. At this point, it could come down to simple apathy. Since most users won\u2019t be personally impacted by the consequences of a breach, there\u2019s limited interest in working to prevent one.<\/p>\n
To date, no one has come up with a good solution to this problem. But, based on the statistics, you can be almost certain that a significant portion of your workforce hasn\u2019t changed their passwords in a while, and many of them are likely using passwords that would be child\u2019s play for a hacker to work out.<\/p>\n
That puts your company at risk, and it\u2019s a ticking time bomb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The newest big problem with data security is the same as the old big problem with data security. It\u2019s the users. Specifically, it\u2019s the fact that most people don\u2019t bother to change their passwords more than once a year, if that frequently. Data security is a major headache for all business owners, no matter the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[34,30,27],"yoast_head":"\n