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Senior Member Technical Staff, Dell Technologies

Hello LinkedIn Friends and Associates! I'm venting but I am stuck in Password H311. My company has us change about every two months but we must select a very lengthy password, can not use a password vault and somehow the system determines if your password is close to a word or not. The frustration is not remembering the password. It is guessing what the system considers a word or sentence with all the random letters and symbols in it. F@LL1NGB@CKW@RD5 is too close to a word or phrase. I would choose random but I cant even cut and paste the password within the system to save it in a file somewhere. I know I'll eventually put it on a post it note somewhere to remember it. It must be at least 12 characters, no words or phrases, random assortment of letters and at least three numbers and three symbols. I completely understand zero trust. But having policies to not write the password down, not save it anywhere and use no mnemonics to remember it is starting to make the zero trust ensure users don't follow the rules because of ability not because of lack of wanting to comply. How do IT organizations faced with security develop this in a way that is easy for users to comply?

Jessica Kovats, PharmD, MS, BCMAS

Driving impactful innovation in biopharma | ex-Moderna, ex-BMS | Medical Information & Content Strategy | MRC/PRC review | Insights & analytics | Launch & global ops | MA excellence & training | AI & digital enthusiast

2mo

I’m with you on this! #zerosanity

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