The 5th of May is World Password Day, the ideal opportunity to raise awareness of passwords with your organisation's staff and senior management.
This is the fourth year passwords have been honoured in this way. The event recurs annually on the first Thursday of May.
Brian Spector, CEO at MIRACL said: “It’s great to draw attention to the security risks around passwords, but in truth, it’s time for us to move past them altogether. Security on the Internet is long overdue for a change. Passwords don’t scale for users, they don’t protect individual services, and they are vulnerable to a myriad of attacks.
But we don’t have to accept the weekly announcements of mass password-breaches. Database hacks, password reuse, browser attacks and social engineering can all be a thing of the past in the authentication space. Internet users worldwide are rightly demanding to be protected when they submit their valuable personal information online, and web services need to take that seriously. As the web moves into its next phase, new solutions are needed to move the future of cloud computing forward, and protect the data, identities and information of the nearly 3 billion people who use the web.”