Are You Willing to Pay the High Cost of Compromised Credentials?
Sep 25, 2023
Password Security / Cybersecurity
Weak password policies leave organizations vulnerable to attacks. But are the standard password complexity requirements enough to secure them? 83% of compromised passwords would satisfy the password complexity and length requirements of compliance standards. That’s because bad actors already have access to billions of stolen credentials that can be used to compromise additional accounts by reusing those same credentials. To strengthen password security, organizations need to look beyond complexity requirements and block the use of compromised credentials. Need stolen credentials? There's a market for that Every time an organization gets breached or a subset of customers' credentials is stolen, there’s a high possibility all those passwords end up for sale on the dark web. Remember the Dropbox and LinkedIn hack that resulted in 71 million and 117 million stolen passwords? There is an underground market that sells those credentials to hackers which they can then...
