Security News > 2021 > March > Fixing the Weakest Link — The Passwords — in Cybersecurity Today

Password security has long been an issue for businesses and their cybersecurity standards.

Account passwords are often the weakest link in the overall security posture for many organizations.

The Windows default password policy is a good start, but are there security vulnerabilities associated with it? Let's look at the current recommendations from leading cybersecurity authorities and see how they measure up against the Windows default password policy.

Industry cybersecurity experts are emphasizing the need to check passwords against known weak password lists and are placing less focus on password expiration policies that have long been a part of enterprise password policies.

Looking at the other Group Policy Password Policy defaults enabled, the 7-character minimum password length falls short of what is noted by many leading cybersecurity best practices and recommendations from leading authorities.

Note below the specific password policy standard minimum password length and if they recommend comparing passwords with a dictionary list.

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