Security News > 2019 > August > Microsoft is right, mandatory password changes are obsolete

Microsoft has recently come out and said that mandatory password changing is ancient and obsolete. This goes directly against everything we were trained to think for the last couple of decades, and against most compliance directives including some of the most dominant security standards. And it is correct. If anything, Microsoft hasn’t gone far enough: password changing is the visible tip of the iceberg – there are many other major inconveniences for our users that … More → The post Microsoft is right, mandatory password changes are obsolete appeared first on Help Net Security.

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