Security? … Your mama isn’t going to save you this time now or in the future!

Redport Information Assurance
The yet ever so popular “Security Question and Answer” for password recovery and authentication has always usually started with “What is your Mother’s Maiden Name?” Unfortunately, researchers have discovered this particular security question has never been safe or protected! In a recent New York Times Article it states “There is one common bad habit that consumers and billion-dollar businesses alike should have quit long ago and can’t afford to carry into 2018 and it’s the use of weak website security questions.” The number one and most popular question answer is what is your mother’s maiden name? The researchers have found that your mother’s maiden name is not a secret at all and that this should be very obvious, yet the question and other similarly flawed security questions for account verifications continue to be asked when we forget our password or log in our identification from a new computer. However, this norm continues and these types of security questions will still be used now and well into the future. Steve Reinkemeyer, the CEO of Redport IA, LLC agrees with the opinion post that if these types of security questions are continuously used, then they should have multiple answers, where the answers are simple, stable, memorable and not so easily researched or guessed. Unfortunately, based on consensus these type of question parameters are not kept at all. Unfortunately, the same iniquitousness is applied when users have the chance to write their own security questions. They seem to write out the same easy and researchable questions and answers. A perfect ideal situation as discussed with Redport IA, LLC security researchers is to intentionally create false answers to the developed questions with their answers. Therefore, as a summary of the development of security questions and answers, many users continue to be lazy in the same way in the development of their security questions and answers but this time their moms will not be there to clean up after them!
Source:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/opinion/sunday/internet-security-questions.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region


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