The War of Passwords: Compliance vs NIST

The most recent National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines have been updated for passwords in section 800-63B. The document no longer recommends combinations of capital letters, lower case letters, numbers and special characters. Yet most companies and systems still mandate these complexity requirements for passwords. What gives? There’s a bit of an arms […]…

Source : https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/security-data-protection/war-passwords-compliance-nist/

Date : March 5, 2020 at 09:45AM

Tag(s) : #SECURITE ENG