{"id":795,"date":"2019-10-17T20:32:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T20:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ct-prod-wp.taftcollege.edu\/its\/?page_id=795"},"modified":"2019-10-17T20:32:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T20:32:58","slug":"password-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ct-prod-wp.taftcollege.edu\/its\/password-best-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Password Best Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221;][vc_column]<div id=\"ultimate-heading-991969fb651de2678\" class=\"uvc-heading ult-adjust-bottom-margin ultimate-heading-991969fb651de2678 uvc-4428 \" data-hspacer=\"no_spacer\"  data-halign=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left\"><div class=\"uvc-heading-spacer no_spacer\" style=\"top\"><\/div><div class=\"uvc-main-heading ult-responsive\"  data-ultimate-target='.uvc-heading.ultimate-heading-991969fb651de2678 h3'  data-responsive-json-new='{\"font-size\":\"\",\"line-height\":\"\"}' ><h3 style=\"font-weight:normal;\">TAFT COLLEGE PASSWORD POLICY<\/h3><\/div><div class=\"uvc-sub-heading ult-responsive\"  data-ultimate-target='.uvc-heading.ultimate-heading-991969fb651de2678 .uvc-sub-heading '  data-responsive-json-new='{\"font-size\":\"\",\"line-height\":\"\"}'  style=\"font-weight:normal;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 40px\">Beginning on Friday 11\/1\/19, password reset requests will require that passwords be at least 12 characters long.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><div id=\"ultimate-heading-623369fb651de26ed\" class=\"uvc-heading ult-adjust-bottom-margin ultimate-heading-623369fb651de26ed uvc-924 \" data-hspacer=\"no_spacer\"  data-halign=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left\"><div class=\"uvc-heading-spacer no_spacer\" style=\"top\"><\/div><div class=\"uvc-main-heading ult-responsive\"  data-ultimate-target='.uvc-heading.ultimate-heading-623369fb651de26ed h3'  data-responsive-json-new='{\"font-size\":\"\",\"line-height\":\"\"}' ><h3 style=\"font-weight:normal;\">What Should You Do?<\/h3><\/div><div class=\"uvc-sub-heading ult-responsive\"  data-ultimate-target='.uvc-heading.ultimate-heading-623369fb651de26ed .uvc-sub-heading '  data-responsive-json-new='{\"font-size\":\"\",\"line-height\":\"\"}'  style=\"font-weight:normal;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Passwords expire every 180 days and as such, you\u2019ll eventually be prompted to reset your password. To help you create a 12-character password, you should consider creating a passphrase that is secure and easily remembered.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><div id=\"ultimate-heading-552569fb651de2738\" class=\"uvc-heading ult-adjust-bottom-margin ultimate-heading-552569fb651de2738 uvc-1751 \" data-hspacer=\"no_spacer\"  data-halign=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left\"><div class=\"uvc-heading-spacer no_spacer\" style=\"top\"><\/div><div class=\"uvc-main-heading ult-responsive\"  data-ultimate-target='.uvc-heading.ultimate-heading-552569fb651de2738 h3'  data-responsive-json-new='{\"font-size\":\"\",\"line-height\":\"\"}' ><h3 style=\"font-weight:normal;\">Password Best Practices<\/h3><\/div><\/div>[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Creating a strong password is key to protecting your personal information at Taft College. Beyond the minimum required password length, ITS recommends several best practices to help strengthen your login credentials for your Taft College network, system and e-mail accounts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Use a minimum of 12 characters.<\/span><\/strong> In general, the longer and more diverse a password is, the more difficult it will be for an attacker to crack it.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Use a variety of characters<\/span><\/strong> including numbers, upper case letters, lower case letters and special characters (e.g. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">~ ! @ # $ % ^ &amp; *<\/span><\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Create a passphrase<\/span><\/strong>. Passphrases are phrases that you can easily remember and can also be translated into characters. For example, the phrase \u201cI saw Cougie the Cougar at Taft College in 2019\u201d can be translated to \u201cIsCtC@tCi2019\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Never share with others<\/strong><\/span><strong>. <\/strong>Anyone with access to your password has access to your personal information, and therefore can impersonate you online. This includes being able to alter your financial information, make purchases, send emails addressed as you, etc.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Use different passwords for different accounts<\/strong><\/span><strong>. <\/strong>If the same password is used across multiple applications and an attacker manages to get access to your password, they can then compromise all of your accounts with that one password. Using different passwords for different applications ensures that all of your accounts won\u2019t be compromised if one of your passwords is cracked.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Change your password periodically<\/strong><\/span><strong>. <\/strong>Changing a password periodically allows for less time for attackers to obtain a particular password.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<div id=\"ultimate-heading-284969fb651de277a\" class=\"uvc-heading ult-adjust-bottom-margin ultimate-heading-284969fb651de277a uvc-4564 \" data-hspacer=\"no_spacer\"  data-halign=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left\"><div class=\"uvc-heading-spacer no_spacer\" style=\"top\"><\/div><div class=\"uvc-main-heading ult-responsive\"  data-ultimate-target='.uvc-heading.ultimate-heading-284969fb651de277a h3'  data-responsive-json-new='{\"font-size\":\"\",\"line-height\":\"\"}' ><h3 style=\"font-weight:normal;\">Getting Help and Additional Information<\/h3><\/div><div class=\"uvc-sub-heading ult-responsive\"  data-ultimate-target='.uvc-heading.ultimate-heading-284969fb651de277a .uvc-sub-heading '  data-responsive-json-new='{\"font-size\":\"\",\"line-height\":\"\"}'  style=\"font-weight:normal;\">Please call or e-mail the Helpdesk with any questions or concerns you may have.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Phone: (661) 763-7737<br \/>\nE-mail: <a href=\"mailto:helpdesk@taftcollege.edu\">helpdesk@taftcollege.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your support.<br \/>\nInformation Technology Services<\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text] Creating a strong password is key to protecting your personal information at Taft College. Beyond the minimum required password length, ITS recommends several best practices to help strengthen your login credentials for your Taft College network, system and e-mail accounts: Use a minimum of 12 characters. In general, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-795","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ct-prod-wp.taftcollege.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ct-prod-wp.taftcollege.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ct-prod-wp.taftcollege.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ct-prod-wp.taftcollege.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ct-prod-wp.taftcollege.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ct-prod-wp.taftcollege.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ct-prod-wp.taftcollege.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}