Once you’ve planned out a new password policy, it’s time to put it into practice by setting the right configurations within your Active Directory. If you’re still at the planning stage, we’d recommend checking out our strategy tips for... Read More
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Five strategy recommendations for planning a password policy
An Active Directory full of strong, non-compromised passwords should be an essential cybersecurity goal for every organization. A clearly articulated and enforceable password policy strategy is the best way to put this into practice. However, it’s important to tailor... Read More
[New research] Are VPN passwords secure? Two million malware-stolen passwords say no.
Today, the Specops research team is publishing new data on VPN passwords that have been stolen by malware. In total, our threat intelligence research team found 2,151,523 VPN passwords that have been compromised by malware over the past year.... Read More
How to recover a deleted Active Directory object
Most organizations today are still running Active Directory on-premises as their identity and access management solution. Many businesses are also synchronizing it with cloud directories as part of a hybrid configuration. Recovering Active Directory and deleted objects is an... Read More
How we use Threat Intelligence to find new breached passwords
What makes a good breached password list? Numbers are a good start – the more breached passwords you can cross-reference against your Active Directory, the better. You want to maximize your chances of detecting end users who are using... Read More
New hires, old problems: How to reduce password risk during onboarding
The first week of a new job always seems to involve plenty of time with the IT team – especially when onboarding remote employees. Setting up hardware, accesses, and passwords is an essential step. One of the first and... Read More
How much are weak passwords costing your organization?
Bad passwords can be a direct and indirect financial drain on any organization. They’re often the weakest link in a security chain, allowing hackers easy access to sensitive systems and data. Cyber-attacks and breaches are the obvious risks, but... Read More
[New research] Golf takes gold: Appears in over 40K breached Olympic sport passwords
Today, the Specops research team is publishing new data on end users choosing their sporting hobbies as passwords. Inspired by the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, we’ve looked at breached passwords that contain sports from the global sporting event as... Read More
Specops Authentication: What We Added in H1 2024
New ID Services (Passkeys, Entra ID), Securing First Day Passwords, & More Specops Authentication is our platform that secures self-service key recovery and password resets, changes and account unlocks with multi-factor authentication (MFA), via self-service and/or at the IT... Read More
Rockyou2024 analysis: Mega password list or just noise?
Back in June 2021, a large data dump called ‘rockyou2021’ was posted on a popular hacking forum. It was named after the popular password list used in brute-force attacks called ‘Rockyou.txt’ – and it was a pretty big story... Read More