Why You Should Still Change Your Password

(If this article is too long for you, but you have a dangerous stalker in your life, please read the section, “your life may depend on this” near the end).

There are lots of cybersecurity writers and speakers advocating the idea that we no longer need to change passwords. Specifically, they’re promoting the idea that password rotation — changing your password on a schedule, like every 30 or 90 days — is pointless. They even say that it weakens security, because people hate it so much that they use weak passwords, or only change the number at the end, and so…

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CISO, Director of Information Security, and Security Consultant. Also, I wrote some books that have nothing to do with IT. http://www.amazon.com/author/bobyoung

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CISO, Director of Information Security, and Security Consultant. Also, I wrote some books that have nothing to do with IT. http://www.amazon.com/author/bobyoung