World Password Month, a celebration of strong passwords

World password month

April 20th, 2023

World Password Month, Week 3: the merits of making an effort

We’ve talked about the importance of coming up with strong, unique passwords – but also about the difficulties of doing so. We’ve addressed coming up with strong passwords, and why you should never write them down. Now, we turn to the merits of making an effort.

Awareways will celebrate World Password Day (May 4th) this year by publishing a weekly nugget of numerical wisdom related to passwords and organizational culture. Welcome to password month.

The Question

We’ve talked about the importance of coming up with strong, unique passwords – but also about the difficulties of doing so. Which is why we’ve asked 21.000 people if they think it is important to make an effort to come up with a strong password. Here, we’ve divided them into government employees and employees of multinational companies.

Government personnel scored a respectable 70.9%, indicating ‘yes’ to they do find it important. Meanwhile, multinational employees scored an impressive 92.6%.

What’s the logic behind these numbers?

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The Answer

How can this be explained? Well, in governments, the responsibilities employees feel are perhaps aimed more towards society and the civilians they serve. Any policy breach doesn’t necessarily impact the bottom line; and so employees might feel investing a bit less effort won’t impact the organization that much.

Multinationals on the other hand are run with Profit and Loss in mind; shareholder value is impacted if incidents occur, and employees often get top-down direction on the relation between behavior and results.

Whatever the reason, the numbers indicate a difference in organizational commitment. This is something managers should take into account when deploying their controls.

More insights next week! Check out our other blog of World Password Month about strong passwords.

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