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WHERE’D I PUT MY PASSWORD?

57%MEMORIZETHEM

25%ALLOW THEIR BROWSERS TO SAVE THEM

11%WRITE THEM DOWN

7%USE PASSWORD MANAGING SOFTWARE. . . which is the recommended strategy from cybersecurity

professionals.

1 www.1reddrop.com/2018/03/07/statistics-america-password-security-practices/2 www.entrepreneur.com/article/2469023 www.prevention.com/life/g20490201/when-to-toss-common-household-items/?slide=34 www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/the-new-laws-of-tv-upgrading/250998/5 www.blog.preempt.com/weak-passwords6 www.betterbuys.com/estimating-password-cracking-times/77 www.fortune.com/2017/12/19/the-25-most-used-hackable-passwords-2017-star-wars-freedom/

SOURCES

73% 54%

of online accounts are guarded

by duplicated passwords

of people use 5 or fewer

passwords throughout their life

DANGEROUSREPETITION

TOP

OF

1. 1234562. Password3. 12345678

4. qwerty5. 123456. 1234567897

PASSWORDS

An ideal complex password would ideally have a mix of letters, numbers and special characters, like this:

DS*]_H:GMS?BZ7])

QUICK TO CRACKHackers make quick work of cracking passwords that are 10 characters or less:5

SIMPLE< DAYSOMEWHATCOMPLEX< WEEKHIGHLYCOMPLEX< MONTH

Time needed to crack an

password

1011-CHARACTER

YEARSTime needed to crack an

password6

20012-CHARACTER

YEARS

SIZE MATTERS

of people use passwords that

are over 10 years old . . .

meaning they’ve kept the

same password for the

lifespan of a mattress!2,3

of people use passwords that

are at least 5 years old . . .

meaning some have had the

same password for the

average lifespan of a TV!4

of Americans only change

their password when they

forget it!

never change their

password!

17%51%47%21%

NO ONE LIKES CHANGE

STATISTICS

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