From the course: Cybersecurity Fundamentals for IT Technicians by Pearson

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Password hygiene and best practices

Password hygiene and best practices

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Password hygiene and best practices

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This lesson, we're going to talk about password hygiene and best practices. Now, a lot of these things might have been mentioned in other lessons in this course, but they are so important that I feel that it would be a great idea to reiterate them anyway, especially since we're talking about cybersecurity fundamentals. So the first thing I would have to say right out of the gate is to use very, very, very strong passwords for each of your accounts, and use unique passwords for each account. You do not want your banking account password to be the same password that you log into your local computer with, or that you log into your phone with. You don't want your ATM PIN number to be the same number that you use to unlock your cell phone. These are the type of things that I'm talking about to make sure you keep that in mind. It might go without saying, but we have to say it. The other thing is include a mix of upper and lowercase letters, hexadecimal is what we like to call it, special…

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