John Murphy
Information Technology Manager with experience in team management through leadership, guidance, and insight; provision and maintenance of servers; development of the website; administration of the database; resolution of service desk issues; configuration of network equipment, company firewalls, and VPNs; management of the company’s PBX including VoIP phones; project and application development focused around the .Net framework, the Android platform, and Visual Basic macros; informed purchasing of new and replacement equipment; execution of cybersecurity expertise such as implementation of group policies to control network access; maintenance of the email system; and provision of training communications on a company-wide basis.
Password Security
Standard Password Requirements
- Minimum 8 Alpha-numeric characters
- Both uppercase and lowercase letters
- Special Characters (!@#$%^&*)
- Not any previously used passwords
Data Security Incidents
- Collection #1 - January 2019 - 773 Million Records discovered
- Town of Salem - January 2019 - 7.6 Million gamer accounts stolen
- Fortnite - January 2019 - Application security vulnerabilities discovered
- Facebook - March 2019 - Confirmed it was storing passwords in plain text and accessible to 20k employees
- Instagram - May 2019 - 49 Million users private contact information exposed
- Equifax Data Breach - July 2017 - 147 Million people with PII exposed
Pwned Passwords
- asasas - Seen 53,788
- asasas95 - Seen 11 Times
- My Personal Password - Seen 4 times
- peanutbrittle - Seen 89 times
Making a Secure Password
Peanut Brittle
P3@nutBrittl3
- Facebook - P3@nutBrittl3FBook
- Instagram - P3@nutBrittl3Insta
- SnapChat - P3@nutBrittl3SNAP
- CHS Pintos - P3@nutBrittl3Pinto
Securing Your Identity
Equifax 2017 Data breach
- Names
- Social security numbers
- Birth dates
- Addresses
- Some credit card numbers
- Some driver's license numbers
- Other PII
