What is a complex password?

What is a complex password?

For your online accounts, passwords are the weakest point in any level in security. If someone accesses your credentials, your content and your vital information are at risk.

Although most websites today offer extra security protection, anyone who retrieves or guesses your password can easily bypass other security measures that most sites have in place.

That person can make any changes to your online accounts, make purchases, or otherwise manipulate your data. Always have your data backed up just in case.

Selecting a secure password is crucial because let’s face it, our entire life is now spent in the digital universe: social media, banking, email, shopping, and more.

Many people have the terrible habit of using the same passwords across multiple accounts. It may be easier to remember, but if there is a security vulnerability on one account, everything could be compromised.

A complex password uses different types of characters in unique ways to increase security.
  • Between 8 and 128 characters long.
  • Use at least 3 of the following types of characters:  (a) uppercase letters, (b) lowercase letters, (c) numbers, and/or (d) special characters
  • Password must be unique and cannot be re-used
Examples

For example:

    • “Pass Go and collect $200”– p@$$GOandCLCt$200
    • “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall” — humTdumt$@t0nAwa11
    • “It is raining cats and dogs!”– 1tsrAIn1NGcts&DGS!

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