Tag: Password policy

Various researches reveal that a staggering 80% of reported breaches involve exploiting vulnerabilities in the configurations of IT systems. To proactively block attacks and thereby prevent costly downtime and data breaches, experts recommend implementing a server hardening policy, which is a...

Tighter data protection regulations have forced businesses to put data security at the top of their priority list. However most companies still lack a strong cybersecurity culture among their employees. In fact, a recent paper by Osterman Research reports that less than half (42%) of organizations...

This article will go over how to write a script to read all users' last expired password and detect the time it will expire. It will then send an email. Passwords aren’t the most secure way to protect information these days but still are used nearly everywhere you look. IT professionals in the...

It is hard to keep up with all of the various computer security incidents occurring daily. One can't help but wonder if more incidents are being reported and spreading through social media and internet news or if more incidents are taking place. It is likely both. The good news is, over the last...

In a recent download poll performed by Netwrix, an encouraging 54.3% of administrators expressed their need to reset passwords in-bulk reflecting the growing need to clear old passwords that for some may have not changed in years. This type of action indicates that password security is a concern...