There have been many efforts to create systems without considering the users. Furnell (2007) found that while the rules for password creation had been clearly established, websites were doing little to educate users. Campbell et al. (2011) tested a system that did enforce proper password creation but seemed perplexed why this did not reduce password reuse or the incorporation of personal information into passwords. This highlights one obvious problem in password research as there is a hyper-focus on user ability to remember a singular password while ignoring that users need passwords for dozens of applications (Grawemeyer & Johnson, 2011).
Instead of treating users as a liability, system designers need to recognize users are
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When viewed in totality, these examples plainly show the previously noted maxim that users can be expected to remember at most five distinct passwords used on a regular basis (Adams & Sasse, 1999). Understanding and accepting these human constraints and limitations is key to developing any robust and secure password schema.
This does not imply a perfectly secure system can be designed. With enough time, any system can be breached (Katz, Ostrovsky, & Yung, 2009). Instead, a reasonably secure password schema needs to be derived. It should keep users relatively safe while affording them the ability to manage passwords without concern of forgetting them or recording them.
With those criteria for success in mind, there have been some efforts made to meet the needs of the users. Duggan, Johnson, and Grawemeyer (2012) analyzed company needs and suggested password requirements be customized to individual users. While their intentions are laudable, though, the practicality of their suggestions can be questioned. Most corporations will not see the cost benefit of investing numerous man hours in implementing such a wide-ranging schema.
Likewise, Ganesan (2016) proposes a single sign-on solution for companies with an Enterprise architecture in place. While this might be good for large corporations, smaller companies may not have the
All passwords should be promptly changed if they are suspected of being disclosed, or are known to have
In this lab, many more options were explored with Windows servers. The topics covered were Group Policies and Password Settings Objects. Both of these features of Windows Active Directory allow for very granular settings to be set across the network. These include a wide range of settings that one most likely would not even think of. I have personally worked with both Active Directory and Group Policies quite extensively so neither of these were new topics for me to learn. However, I had never worked with Password Setting Objects before so that was a learning experience. All of these features are useful in any enterprise production network and are highly valuable skills to have.
The consumer expects that when using a public computer for a specified task such as printing through a service, that the data or material is protected from other users including employees. When using a public computer for internet surfing, tax filing banking, etc. the general public user does not always think about the threats to security of their own personal information. It is important for the company to protect the users in addition to the users understanding the potential threats that exist when entering personal information.
Company must also develop a clear structure for granting employees access to sensitive information. Not all employees need such data in order to fulfill their everyday job responsibilities. For those who need admission to sensitive information, a strong authentication mechanism must be developed, which cannot be bypassed. This will ensure that only authorized users are accessing compromising data.
The internet and online sites can be an open door for someone to commit identity theft. In order to combat this I need to continue to “create a strong password, by avoiding common or easy-to-guess passwords.” (Greene-Lewis, 2012) I use a password that contains both upper and lower case letters in addition to numbers and I often combine one or more words together to make it difficult for someone to guess my password. It is a bad idea to use common or easily guessed passwords, such as your birthdate or pet’s
This explanation clearly shows that security and usability both do not go side by side. Many software developers say that improving usability degrades security and vice-versa. On the other hand user belief that being difficult, is a part of being secure. The methodology used in this study it uses a laboratory test which asks users to perform tasks that include the use of securiy. Study is comprised of both the methods i.e. quantitative and qualitative approaches. The Polaris documentation was also included as it is considered a part of the software
TSWBAT identify weak passwords, label unsecured transactions from the address bar, and summarize the importance of a strong password.
When it comes to securing your online activities, a password is one of the best tools you have. The creation of a strong password is one of the first tips security experts give to organisations – but how will you keep track of the different password?
In a world amid the buzzing and beeping of smart phones, laptops, and tablets, our susceptibility now to internet fraud is greater than ever. It’s not incredibly uncommon to hear of someone’s experience with separation anxiety over their mobile device. and although this may be common nature and just scream of the attachment issues we’ve developed with each new technological advancement becoming available on the market, the preeminent problem is security. The deceit in the system is clear to see. We lock our doors as a method of protecting ourselves in our homes and vehicles, but what measure provides the same sense of security online? The passwords we create that are intended to be a minimum of eight characters, include a number as well as at least one capital letter, or special character has to be something that we can remember and have committed to memory. The issue with this lies within the frequency of of repetitive use of the same keyword/phrase. Director of IT for Bud Clary Automotive and Senior Emerging Security Technology Engineer Consultant for Nike, Inc., Sherry Carpenter, provides insight on the subject, “With just over three billion people accessing the internet everyday it’s proven to be immensely important to have firewalls, encryption tactics and Intrusion Prevention Systems in place to secure a network from malicious traffic (including viruses, malware, ransomware, etc.)... By merely opening an unknown attachment in an email, you risk infecting not
Yet, articles are constantly warning if users ever reuse a password it can cause a chain reaction where all their critical information can be accessed by hackers (Ives, Walsh, & Schneider, 2004). With all of these conflicting pressures, is it any wonder many users feel at wits end with passwords? Therefore, the purpose of this research is to prove password reuse could be systematically used to provide users with an acceptable security threat level without overburdening user memory faculties by containing the number of unique password derivative phrases to five or less.
They found that through the modification of a previously expired password, the attempts made to access the account needed are significantly lower as opposed to a new password (for example, using “password”, and then using “pa$sword”) (Zhang, Monrose, & Reiter, 2010).
Conventional textual password has been in use for authentication for a long time due to its ease-of-use. However, drawbacks such as weak or stolen passwords and unrecalled passwords, has frequently compromised security. Consequently, graphical password technique has been proposed from literatures as a solution. However, this technique still faced with the challenge of peep attacks, tradeoff between easy-use (minima cognitive requirement) and secured strength (moderate complexity) issues. This research presented a graphic-based password scheme using Arithmetic Operators and Numerical Value (AONV) in which the aforementioned issues are addressed. The AONV model consists of registration and verification stages which users must successfully complete in order to be authenticated. A hybrid technique based on recognition, cued and pure recall was adopted. The system security was enhanced by image matching, numerical value, computational numeric secret key, arithmetic operator and shuffling of images in grid cells. This help in frustrating shoulder surfing attacks during the login session and maintain balance between usability security strengthen. The model was implemented using C#.net programming language and SQL Server 2008 serves as the backend. It was observed that out of 18 registered users, 100% remembered their images, 94.44% were remembered their numerical value and operator and 88.89% computed their secret key
In this paper, we present a new security primitivebased on hard AI problems, a novel family of graphical password system on CAPTCHA technology. It calls CAPTCHA as graphical passwords (CaRP). CaRP is both a CAPTCHA and a graphical password method. CaRP shows a number of security problems including online guessing attacks. A CaRP password can occur automatically, in onlineguessing attacks even if password is in search set. CaRP provide security,usability and appears to fit well some practical applicationsfor improving online security.
Text passwords are nowadays the main way to authenticate users in web environments that require privacy and security.
The well known vulnerabilities of the textual password are here. To overcome the problem in textual based passwords we use graphical based password. Mostly, users tend to pick passwords that are easy to remember or short passwords, which makes the passwords unprotected for the attackers to break.