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Microsoft: Password Expiration No Longer Required For Windows 10 Security

Calendar Apr 26, 2019 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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What is it about a secure password that makes us think it’s secure?

Traditionally, for businesses it’s been things like complexity, minimum length, avoiding known bad passwords, and how often passwords are changed to counter the possibility of undetected compromise.

And yet, recently, the last of those orthodoxies – password expiration – has started to crumble.

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