Leetspeak passwords – predictable and crackable

Leetspeak enables users to create passwords that are easy to remember, and easy crack. By preventing users from utilizing character substitution during password creation, Specops Password Policy can guide users towards stronger passwords. Read More

3 passphrase best practices

A strong password is long and complex. Adding upper case, numbers, and special characters make it harder to crack. However, considering user behavior, complex passwords have proven too difficult to remember. To cope with complexity requirements, users default to... Read More

Password Strength Meters – more harm than good?

Fact one, passwords are here to stay, at least for the near future. Fact two, users have not gotten any better at making them stronger, or using additional factors during authentication. To help users with this seemingly impossible task,... Read More

Your password: separating the weak from the strong

You are probably familiar with the basics of password security: Complexity is a necessity; and length equals strength. If you have a social media or email account, chances are your password meets their minimum length and/or complexity requirements. But,... Read More

best password policy meme award

And the best password meme award goes to…

For a few weeks now we have been running a contest for SpiceHeads, IT professionals who use Spiceworks and thereby are official curators of all things Spicy. The inspiration for the contest came after attending several local SpiceCorps meetups,... Read More

Specops Password Reset Software for Windows and Active Directory

Security questions – a flawed model

It is ingrained in our mind that we should create secure passwords. Most times we attempt to create strong passwords that guard our information against hacker attacks but there’s a security hole we often overlook – security questions.  For... Read More