Not exactly. Disagreeing with his statement that most threats are from the inside.
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 21:35, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]>wrote: > Given your almost complete lack of context with your link, it’s hard to > tell _*WHAT*_ you were suggesting… other than disagreeing with Doug’s > assessment, which was speaking to…. (ta-da!).. passwords on sticky notes.* > *** > > ** ** > > -sc**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, March 16, 2012 12:13 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Worth some consideration...**** > > ** ** > > Don't be obtuse. I made no recommendation with my statement. > > If you're looking for options, I recommend fully formed but easy to type > sentences of at least 20 characters. If they must be written down, advise > your clients to keep them in their wallets. > > Kurt**** > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 16:51, Mack Bolan <[email protected]> wrote:* > *** > > So that makes sticky notes ok? > > Mack S. Bolan > > > **** > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:*** > * > > Perhaps you might want to rethink your threat model: > > http://www.darkreading.com/database-security/167901020/security/attacks-breaches/232601717/new-verizon-breach-data-shows-outside-threat-dominated-2011.html > **** > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 13:50, Doug Hampshire <[email protected]> > wrote:**** > > Are you sure about that? The vast majority of security incidents happen on > the inside of your network from known individuals. Also it was addressing > offline brute force attacks. Most online systems have lockout policies and > other countermeasures to limit exposure to brute force attacks. **** > > ** ** > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Crawford, Scott <[email protected]> > wrote:**** > > I'd rather have "good" passwords written down on a sticky note accessible > only to a limited number of coworkers than "bad" passwords that can be > exploited by any black-hat on the internet. > > Sent from my Windows Phone**** > ------------------------------ > > *From: *Heaton, Joseph@DFG > *Sent: *3/15/2012 11:07 AM > *To: *NT System Admin Issues > *Subject: *RE: Worth some consideration...**** > > ** ** > > Wait… I’m NOT supposed to write my password on a sticky note? How am I > supposed to let my coworker use my login, then?**** > > **** > > Joe Heaton**** > > ITB – Windows Server Support**** > > **** > > *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, March 15, 2012 7:49 AM > *To:* Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Worth some consideration...**** > > **** > > That's an implementation problem.**** > > **** > > If I choose a passphrase of "Mary had a little lamb" then of course that > will be relatively weak as passphrases go. That that is not an inherent > weakness of passphrases, but of people.**** > > **** > > Lots of things are undermined by poor choices. Completely random 20 > character passwords with a unicode character set are undermined by having > them posted on sticky notes.**** > > **** > > We didn't need a whole article to point that out.**** > > **** > > *ASB***** > > *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker***** > > *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market…***** > > ** ** > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:** > ** > > > http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/passphrases-only-marginally-more-secure-than-passwords-because-of-poor-choices.ars > > By Dan Goodin > Ars Technica > March 14, 2012 > > Passwords that contain multiple words aren't as resistant as some > researchers expected to certain types of cracking attacks, mainly > because users frequently pick phrases that occur regularly in everyday > speech, a recently published paper concludes. > > Security managers have long regarded passphrases as an > easy-to-remember way to pack dozens of characters into the string that > must be entered to access online accounts or to unlock private > encryption keys. The more characters, the thinking goes, the harder it > is for attackers to guess or otherwise crack the code, since there are > orders of magnitude more possible combinations. > > But a pair of computer scientists from Cambridge University has found > that a significant percentage of passphrases used in a real-world > scenario were easy to guess. Using a dictionary containing 20,656 > phrases of movie titles, sports team names, and other proper nouns, > they were able to find about 8,000 passphrases chosen by users of > Amazon's now-defunct PayPhrase system. That's an estimated 1.13 > percent of the available accounts. The promise of passphrases' > increased entropy, it seems, was undone by many users' tendency to > pick phrases that are staples of the everyday lexicon. > > "Our results suggest that users aren't able to choose phrases made of > completely random words, but are influenced by the probability of a > phrase occurring in natural language," researchers Joseph Bonneau and > Ekaterina Shutova wrote in the paper (PDF), which is titled > "Linguistic properties of multi-word passphrases." 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