How weak are your user’s passwords? Are they... P@ssw0rd?
Verizon's recent Data Breach Report showed that 81% of hacking-related breaches used either stolen and/or weak passwords. Employees are the weakest link in your network security, using weak passwords and falling for phishing and social engineering attacks.
KnowBe4’s new complimentary Weak Password Test (WPT) checks your Active Directory for several different types of weak password related threats.
WPT gives you a quick look at the effectiveness of your password policies and any fails so that you can take action. WPT tests against 10 types of weak password related threats for example; Weak, Duplicate, Empty, Never Expires, plus 6 more.
According to KnowBe4 CEO Stu Sjouwerman, “KnowBe4’s release of Weak Password Test furthers our mission to empower IT pros with proactive tools to detect threats and educate their users to have security top of mind. Our customers use KnowBe4’s new-school security awareness to reduce their organizations phish-prone percentage, and now they can also mitigate both user- and implementation-related password management weaknesses. Using a weak password is an open-door invitation to cybercriminals. Weak Password Test makes it quick and easy to identify weak passwords so IT managers can take effective action fast.”
This will take you 5 minutes and may give you some insights you never expected!
Here's how it works:
