![]() ![]() As an organisation, you really are only as strong as your weakest link. ![]() The problem is, even if you’re sensible and secure yourself, it only takes one other person in the charity to have a weak password and let the floodgates open. ![]() That’s realistically too many to remember if you want to set secure passwords of special characters, lower and upper-case letters, and numbers (unless you write them all down somewhere). According to an Intel Security survey, the average person has 27 accounts that require a password. The reason people set simple passwords is that they have so many to remember. Usually, it’s a case of having a password that offers next-to-no protection from simple hacking techniques. This isn’t always as simple as someone leaving an unencrypted memory stick on a train or printing off sensitive data and leaving a bag somewhere. The recent WannaCry epidemic showed what can happen if you keep legacy systems that haven’t been patched for security issues as they arise, but more often than not, the real killer is human error. ![]()
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