„BITTE ÄNDERN SIE IHR PASSWORT.“
"PLEASE CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD."
Kontakt / Contact
Maximilian Moll
Assistenz der Geschäftsführung |
Cyber Awareness Beauftragter
Management Assistance |
Cyber Awareness Officer
MBS Speditionsgesellschaft Köln
maximilian.moll@mbslogistics.com
WHY MBS AND NETWORK BOX RELY
ON PASSWORD PROTECTION
Insecure passwords endanger company
networks, but also your own
wallet if cyber criminals use them to
gain access to online banking. But there
are simple guidelines for a secure
password, and even better: with the
password vault, you don't even have
to remember them yourself.
123456. Hard to believe, but next to
"password" and "hello123", this is still
one of the most used pass-words of the
Germans. Simple passwords can be cracked
within a few seconds and give the
attacker access to personal data or the
company network. Hackers can then sell
the data to other criminals, take over the
user's identity and misuse his payment
data or use it for targeted phishing attacks
or blackmail.
But what makes a secure password?
"The average user has 25 accounts with
service providers and online merchants
and uses the same easy-to-remember
password almost everywhere out of
convenience," explains Maximilian Moll,
Awareness Officer at MBS Logistics. "The
quickest and simplest security measure is
to change passwords regularly." Sounds
simple enough, but in reality hardly any
users want to do this and prefer to use
one and the same password for all logins.
A good solution for this is a password
manager that automatically generates
and manages secure passwords. In general,
users should choose services that
support multifactor authentication. In
the area of IT security, MBS works closely
with the IT security expert Network
Box Deutschland GmbH in Cologne. For
Managing Director Dariush Ansari, there
is still a great need for education on the
subject of password protection. "Despite
warnings, a large proportion of companies
still consider it impossible to be interesting
as a target for criminal cyberattacks,"
says Ansari. "In this regard, nine
out of ten companies are now affected
by IT security incidents."
A good password....
• ... should not be too short or
too simple.
• ... should not be stored unencrypted.
• ... is not used for different services.
• ... never consists of names and
words from the dictionary.
• ... is a sufficiently long combination
of at least ten randomly
chosen alphanumeric characters,
numbers, upper and
lower case letters and special
characters.
And how are you supposed to remember
all these passwords? "That brings us back
to the password managers or password
vaults already mentioned," says Maximilian
Moll. "Here, secure passwords are
gene-rated and stored in encrypted form.
The advantage is that the user only has
to access them via a programme and a
master password, without having to remember
all the others." ■
Kontakt / Contact
Dariush Ansari
Geschäftsführer
Network Box
Deutschland GmbH
ansari@network-box.eu
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