Passwords need to be unique and long to have a strength high enough to to keep your business safe from common cyber threats.
Avoid using the same password for multiple accounts and consider using a password manager to keep track.
Compromised passwords caused 80 percent of all data breaches in 2019, resulting in financial losses for both businesses and consumers.
How safe is your password?
Time it would take a computer to crack a password with the following parameters
| Lowercase letters only | At least one uppercase letter | At least one uppercase letter +number | At least one uppercase letter +number +symbol | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Characters | 1 | instantly | instantly | - | - |
| 2 | instantly | instantly | instantly | - | |
| 3 | instantly | instantly | instantly | instantly | |
| 4 | instantly | instantly | instantly | instantly | |
| 5 | instantly | instantly | instantly | instantly | |
| 6 | instantly | instantly | instantly | instantly | |
| 7 | instantly | instantly | 1 min | 6 min | |
| 8 | instantly | 22 min | 1 hrs | 8 hrs | |
| 9 | 2 min | 19 hrs | 3 days | 3 wks | |
| 10 | 1 hrs | 1 mths | 7 mths | 5 yrs | |
| 11 | 1 day | 5 yrs | 41 yrs | 400 yrs | |
| 12 | 3 wks | 300 yrs | 2,000 yrs | 34,000 yrs |
[The stats are gathered from source: security.org, from before quantum computers and not considering state funded hackers with extensive access to highend GPU Ai power]
Test your pasword here under these same premises as the above matrix