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BEST PRACTICE PASSWORD POLICY

May 8, 2019

Passwords are supposed to keep us safe. In fact, they’re a high-security risk. You’d be forgiven for assuming that your junior staff would be the users with the least security awareness. But it’s simply not true. Stats show people who work at high levels use passwords that are simply too weak, or follow poor guidelines. You don’t have to look far for examples. Once the hacker went in, his passwords were exposed to the world. A series of embarrassing issues arising for the Clinton campaign ensued. The hackers started telling voters to ‘vote Trump.’ The campaign fell apart and serious ethical questions arose about Clinton and her campaign.

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ETEK INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION

Etek International Corporation is a leading Information Security solutions provider operating in Latin America, with headquarters in Miami, USA, and branch offices in Colombia and Peru and a joint venture (EtekNovared Brasil) in Brazil. Etek offers a complete range of services and technologies in the areas of consulting, education, supply, deployment, support, monitoring, management and operation of information security technologies. Etek partners with the best of breed InfoSec technology providers.. To ensure the use of best practices and standard methodologies in all its processes and management procedures, ETEK holds the ISO 9001:2000, the ISO/IEC 27001: 2005 and has been recommended for ISO 20000 (April, 2010).

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