{"id":4776,"date":"2011-09-13T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/knowledge-based-authentication-security-passwords\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T17:09:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T17:09:54","slug":"knowledge-based-authentication-security-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/insights\/knowledge-based-authentication-security-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge Based Authentication Security Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a blog on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/09\/new_lows_in_sec.html\">Schneier<br \/>\non Security<\/a> earlier today that was talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/\">knowledge based<br \/>\nauthentication<\/a> in the form of security questions, and one of the comments<br \/>\nhit the mark on the importance of using more than one password for your online<br \/>\naccounts to increase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/solutions\/\">fraud prevention<\/a><br \/>\nsecurity.<\/p>\n<p>The quote from Paul R. Dittrich says:<\/p>\n<p><em><span>Years ago, a colleague asked &#8220;Why do I need to<br \/>\nhave so many passwords?&#8221; Rather than answering directly, I pointed at his<br \/>\nkeyring and asked him &#8220;Why do you need so many different keys? Wouldn&#8217;t it<br \/>\nbe easier to have just one key to open everything?&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span>He looked at me like I was crazy and said<br \/>\n&#8220;Well THAT would be dumb!&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span><br \/>\n(Unfortunately, he did not recognize the analogy between his keys and his<br \/>\npasswords.)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>So this brings me to some pointers on password security:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dont<br \/>\nuse the same password for all accounts<\/li>\n<li>Dont<br \/>\nuse answers that would be obvious (e.g.: pets name, name of children, anniversary<br \/>\ndate, date of birth, favorite sports team, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Use<br \/>\nupper case and lower case letters<\/li>\n<li>Use<br \/>\nnumbers to replace letters<\/li>\n<li>Change<br \/>\nyour password several times per year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a blog on Schneier<br \/>\non Security earlier today that was talking about knowledge based<br \/>\nauthentication in the form of security questions, and one of the comments<br \/>\nhit the mark on the importance of using more than one password for your online accounts to increase fraud prevention security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-prevention","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}