The first week of a new job always seems to involve plenty of time with the IT team – especially when onboarding remote employees. Setting up hardware, accesses, and passwords is an essential step. One of the first and... Read More
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How much are weak passwords costing your organization?
Bad passwords can be a direct and indirect financial drain on any organization. They’re often the weakest link in a security chain, allowing hackers easy access to sensitive systems and data. Cyber-attacks and breaches are the obvious risks, but... Read More
[New research] Golf takes gold: Appears in over 40K breached Olympic sport passwords
Today, the Specops research team is publishing new data on end users choosing their sporting hobbies as passwords. Inspired by the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, we’ve looked at breached passwords that contain sports from the global sporting event as... Read More
Specops Authentication: What We Added in H1 2024
New ID Services (Passkeys, Entra ID), Securing First Day Passwords, & More Specops Authentication is our platform that secures self-service key recovery and password resets, changes and account unlocks with multi-factor authentication (MFA), via self-service and/or at the IT... Read More
Rockyou2024 analysis: Mega password list or just noise?
Back in June 2021, a large data dump called ‘rockyou2021’ was posted on a popular hacking forum. It was named after the popular password list used in brute-force attacks called ‘Rockyou.txt’ – and it was a pretty big story... Read More
Average organization saved $65K in 2023 with self-service password resets
Resetting passwords is a time and resource sink for IT helpdesks – Gartner found 40% of all help desk calls to the service desk are related to password expirations, changes, and resets. However, resets are also a part of... Read More
NIS2, passwords, and MFA: Everything you need to know
The NIS2 Directive is an important piece of legislation for anyone working in cybersecurity across the European Union. The latest updates to the NIS2 (Network and Information Systems) regulations were published in the Official Journal of the European Union... Read More
Scripting new user onboarding with First Day Password
One common question we have received regarding Specops First Day Password is how to bulk enroll users. Many of the organizations or industries we work with, for example education, onboard several new users or employees at specific intervals. The... Read More
How to configure the initial password to new employees for remote onboarding
Many organizations now have a large remote workforce. Servicing this user base has a certain set of logistical and security challenges. One of these challenges includes securely setting and delivering an initial password to new hires. Often, this is... Read More
[New research] Not so temporary: Most commonly breached new hire passwords
Today, the Specops research team is publishing new data on the most commonly breached new account passwords. We’ve looked at breached passwords that are likely to have been intended as temporary passwords, some of which could have been used... Read More