Earlier this year, the CFO of a company I work with opened an urgent email from his boss, the CEO, who we’ll call Sally. The CEO was out on the golf course and forwarded a vendor inquiry to the CFO, who we’ll call Harry. In the message, the vendor asked Sally when it would receive…

As part of its Penetration Testing services, the CDW Security Assessment team analyzes passwords – A LOT of passwords. Whenever we are able to obtain administrator privileges through our testing, which is most of the time on internal assessments, we perform an analysis of password security. We start the process by “dumping” the encrypted passwords…