Assignment: Stronger Passwords - Habits and Safer Practices

This is a mandatory activity for all students. 

Through this activity, you will learn essential habits and best practices to create and maintain stronger, safer passwords.

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Activity Instructions

Please reflect on the questions below, and document your thoughts and upload them in a document to the LMS as your assignment:

1. Think of the passwords you commonly use. Then, write down the tips on how you could strengthen them based on the guidelines provided

2. Have you used your dog’s name or birth date as a password?

3. Have you continued to use the default password in some cases?

4. Have you used the same password for multiple accounts?

5. What steps would you take to prevent breaches similar to the above case study in the future? What did you learn about the importance of password strength, phishing awareness, and MFA?