IT Security: Password Security Awareness

This course explores the importance of having strong passwords, how and why hackers access accounts and systems, the consequences of these security breaches as well as both good and bad password security practices.

Learning Objectives:

• Outline the reasons that hackers attempt to acquire passwords and other credentials

• Recall the methods hackers use to acquire passwords and other credentials

• List the features of strong passwords and passphrases

• Summarize both good and bad password security practices

Course Outline:

• Introduction

• What do hackers want?

• How hackers get passwords

• Password security

 Rev–Oct. 2021. Course Length ≈ 20 minutes.

This course is worth 0.5 CPE credits.