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What password strategy did NIST's 2017 updated guidelines recommend instead of special-character complexity rules?
Answer
Longer passphrases
NIST's SP 800-63B guidance shifted focus from character complexity to password length, endorsing easy-to-remember passphrases of multiple words, which are statistically harder to brute-force than short complex strings while being far more memorable for users.
💡 Did you know?
Passwords containing special characters are no longer recommended by cybersecurity experts because they're often predictable and harder for users to remember securely.
Other options people guess
- Biometric authentication only
- Frequent mandatory password resets
- Randomly generated single-use codes
Topics
- cybersecurity
- passwords
- security-standards
- passphrases
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