World Password Day

Tomorrow is World Password Day.  WPD is observed on the first Thursday of May.  So today would be a great day to take your passwords out to Valley Fair or a movie – wait a minute, that’s silly.  You only can do that if you have all your password in a spiral notebook.

  • It would be a good day for signing up for a password manager program such as LastPass.
  • Or adding Google Authenticator to your smartphone
  • And setting up two-factor authentication for your
    • email accounts,
    • bank and financial accounts,
    • cell phone service account,
    • Facebook, Twitter, and other social network accounts,
    • Amazon and other online retail accounts.
  • It would be a great day to increase your password length to 12 characters.
  • It would be a great day to convert your most important accounts to a 20 character randomly generated password (using a LastPass feature).

So take a few minutes today to take your passwords outside to play, and to show your passwords some love.

And enjoy the video.

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I am a cybersecurity and IT instructor, cybersecurity analyst, pen-tester, trainer, and speaker. I am an owner of the WyzCo Group Inc. In addition to consulting on security products and services, I also conduct security audits, compliance audits, vulnerability assessments and penetration tests. I also teach Cybersecurity Awareness Training classes. I work as an information technology and cybersecurity instructor for several training and certification organizations. I have worked in corporate, military, government, and workforce development training environments I am a frequent speaker at professional conferences such as the Minnesota Bloggers Conference, Secure360 Security Conference in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, the (ISC)2 World Congress 2016, and the ISSA International Conference 2017, and many local community organizations, including Chambers of Commerce, SCORE, and several school districts. I have been blogging on cybersecurity since 2006 at http://wyzguyscybersecurity.com

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