| A password is like a key to your home. If someone | | | | * The password must not be word that can be |
| steals it, there are chances he will use it to steal | | | | found in glossary. |
| something else. We use passwords everywhere in | | | | * It must not be based on anything that some other |
| our life, but the life of an Internet user is absolutely | | | | person can easily guess or find with the use of |
| impossible without passwords: e-mail, online discussion | | | | personal data (e.g. name, telephone number, birth |
| groups, e-bank, commercial websites - all of them | | | | date, etc.). |
| use password-based authentication. | | | | * The password must contain a mixture of upper- |
| We use our "virtual keys" everywhere and all the | | | | and lower-case characters, numbers, punctuation |
| time. We are so accustomed to passwords, that we | | | | marks and special characters. |
| don't pay any attention to them until someone steals | | | | * The password must not be composed from:o |
| it … | | | | Sequence of identical symbols;o Groups of numbers |
| For protection of our "virtual keys" we can choose a | | | | or capital/small letters only;o Sequence of letters or |
| safe password. That makes a "job" for thieves much | | | | numbers (e.g. "abc", "123");o Sequence of letters on |
| more difficult. It's not as hard as we can imagine!!! | | | | the keyboard (e.g. "qwert"). |
| In nowadays there are special information security | | | | * It must be meaningless (Hint: use the first letters |
| awareness trainings, but here are only some simple | | | | of a sentence which you know well). |
| rules that we need to notice choosing our "virtual | | | | * If a password is hard to remember, it is also hard |
| keys"!!! | | | | to guess. |
| * The password must be at least 8 characters long. | | | | * Change your password at least every two months. |
| The longer-the better. | | | | And if we notice that, our passwords will be safe and |
| * It must not contain any part of username. | | | | protect!!! |