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Many popular websites still cling to password creation policies from 1985

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Dec

2023

A significant number of popular websites still allow users to choose weak or even single-character passwords, researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have found. Websites’ lax creation policies for passwords The researchers used an automated account creation method to assess over 20,000 websites across the Tranco top 1M and evaluate the password creation policies users […]

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The SSO tax is killing trust in the security industry

21

Nov

2023

We hate asking an organization we are helping secure to pay the single sign-on (SSO) tax. For those not familiar with the phrase, it refers to the license upgrade fee that many cloud software applications charge for unlocking the functionality needed to integrate with an SSO provider. See: The SSO Wall of Shame for a […]

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Anticipating the benefits of a passwordless tomorrow

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Oct

2023

Businesses are actively moving to eradicate passwords from employees’ lives, with 89% of IT leaders expecting passwords to represent less than a quarter of their organization’s logins within five years or less, according to a FIDO Alliance and LastPass report. Moving to passwordless technology Businesses are ready to embrace a passwordless future, with 92% having […]

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