The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a physical sciences laboratory and a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce, that provides security guidelines, quality standards, and more for various industries. Being a federal agency, NIST …
Employee 1: Hi, admin.
Employee 1: I forgot my password. Can you reset it for me? I’ve raised a ticket too.
IT admin: *sigh*
Employee 2: Hello, admin. Can you unlock my account? I’ve raised a …
The world has become accustomed to remote work, and companies have adapted to this change. However, working remotely—far from a permanent and secured perimeter—is exactly what hackers have been doing all along. Working in this type of environment is their …
Despite drastic changes so far in 2020, the one thing that has stayed somewhat the same is data security, with the Wawa convenience stores data breach becoming the third-largest credit card breach in history. The fact that even big names …
Remote work brings with it a fair share of challenges for IT admins. For example, when users contact admins to reset or change their Active Directory passwords remotely, the new credentials aren’t updated in their devices, as those devices are …
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COVID-19 has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). As a precautionary measure for the safety of employees, most organizations are adopting mandatory work from home policy.…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a physical sciences laboratory and a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce, recently released their guidelines for password security. Some of them are contrary to what we’ve come …
A team of researchers studied a group of users of different age groups, gender, and fields of work/study to see their behavioral patterns while handling passwords. The study involved an online survey and an experiment where users were asked to …
Passwords play an important role in authenticating users in an organization. As an IT admin, you’d hope that employees would understand the importance of password management and be more meticulous, but often, that’s not the case. Implementing strong password management …
