The volume of cybersecurity threats that organizations face has become overwhelming. At CDW’s recent Managing Risk Summit in Washington, D.C., leading security experts described how cybercriminals continue to use innovative techniques, including malware, ransomware and compromised credentials, to gain access to enterprise networks and compromise valuable data. “How do you think hackers think of their…

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…