This practice is not recommended anymore, yet still found in many enterprises.

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Monthly password change.
Enforced high complexity.
Sticky note on screen.

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Hey now, it’s under the keyboard. Much more secure there.

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ProjectnameMonthYear!!

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Monthly? That is insane. Let me guess, no mfa.

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Correct!

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Are you me

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Hell, I don’t even know my passwords. My password manager does. Sometimes I forget the main password but thankfully my fingers don’t, unless I start thinking about it.

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How do you use your password manager to log into your PC. I mean with the AD password you’re changing monthly with “high complexity”? Cause that’s the actual problem scenario in enterprises.

If someone asks me to change some normal password, I really don’t care, just like you (cause password manager), but the main login scenario just isn’t solved with one.

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10 points

Mobile device. Read and type.

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8 points

This guy: 😎

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Isnt this just bad practice?

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Microsoft recommends against it since 2019. But apparently, it is still a thing.

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The company I work for requires annual password changes because it is stipulated by our Cybersecurity insurance provider.

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This 90 days password change BS, is the worst security risk there is. Do you know how many people have Summer2024 as their work computer password because of this system? too damn many! Not to mention the problem it creates for older folks who have a hard time with the change and most times end up locking them selves out. It creates far more chaos than anything secure, which I have been explaining to my company and they still enforce it for their clients.

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It’s often due to the security department following outdated standards. Nowadays NIST recommends the following:

Verifiers SHOULD NOT impose other composition rules (e.g., requiring mixtures of different character types or prohibiting consecutively repeated characters) for memorized secrets. Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically). However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator.

Source: https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html

That said, the company I work for violates all of the above rules …

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Summer2024 is their password? Jeez. What a idiot.

Mine is a proper set of lowercase and uppercase characters, numbers, and symbols, written in a post-it note and taped to my laptop.

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Ah I just keep mine in my desk drawer next to the 2FA code fob

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I am 100% adapting this scheme for my work password! Thank you!

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Password1

Password2

Password…

Password28

Password29

Edit: Call IT to reset password costing the company money because of their idiotic password policy

Password…

Password43

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No joke, my father used to have to do this. I set him up with a solid pw via pw mgr and then we found out that it had to be changed every 60d. He was going to just generate a new one but I was concerned that he’d screw it up and need help resetting the pw every time, so I was like “…just had 1 to the end, and do the same in the mgr; next time 2, then 3…”.

He got to like 8 before (it appears, he stopped complaining about it) they dropped the policy. I just know that every other employee (these are not tech positions whatsoever) just resorted to “password1” and IT realized how fucking stupid that is.

Oh and it retains your last like 5 passwords, so you can’t do “password1” “password2” “password1”. Brilliant.

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