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Any company that still insists on forced password resets and frequent changes needs to learn about Social Engineering and Human Factors. (yiffit.net)

submitted 11 months ago by l_b_i@yiffit.net to c/casualconversation@lemmy.world

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These are the same companies that don't support second factors, only have their app as a second factor, or only SMS second factor. Is it too much to ask for smart card or token (yubikey) support?

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[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm glad that in my company they disabled the password rotation after having implemented 2FA

[–] l_b_i@yiffit.net 4 points 11 months ago

Mine went to once a year for most systems. There is probably an external requirement somewhere that says they need to be changed periodically and once a year is the lowest frequency they can do.