How do I Choose Strong Passwords?

Spirion provides you the ability to enforce good behavior and pick strong passwords.  The guidance below is helpful for choosing strong passwords:

A strong password is easy for you to remember but hard for someone else to guess and contains a mix of at least uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and digits.  Even stronger passwords may contain a symbol.  A password of six characters is sufficient, shorter passwords are easier to guess and longer passwords are great as long as they are not too difficult for you to remember without writing it down.

Strong passwords:

• Have upper or lower case letters.
• Have digits and/or punctuation characters.
• Are six characters long.
• Are easy for you to remember, so you will not be tempted to write them down.
• Can be typed quickly, so someone else cannot look over your shoulder and learn it.

Stronger passwords:

• Have both upper and lower case letters.
• Have digits and/or punctuation characters.
• Are eight characters long.
• Are easy for you to remember, so you will not be tempted to write them down.
• Can be typed quickly, so someone else cannot look over your shoulder and learn it.

A strong password is not:

• Personal information such as your name, phone number, social security number, birth date or address.
• Any word in the dictionary - in any language, or based closely on such a word (such as a word spelled backwards).
• A word with letters simply replaced by digits. For example, P@ssw0rd is not a strong password.
• A sequence or repeated characters. "12345678," "222222," "abcdefg," or adjacent letters on your keyboard