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Credential management

Credential management

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Credential management

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- By far the most common type of authentication mechanism in use today is a username and password. Unfortunately, it seems like every single website or application is going to require you to enter a different username and password for you to log in. This can become a huge security risk, because most users can't remember a lot of different passwords, especially if they're all going to be long and strong passwords. So what do most users do? They either write down their passwords, making them more vulnerable, or they use the same password for every account, which is known as password reuse. The problem with password reuse is that data breaches seem to be a daily occurrence now. And many times usernames and passwords are included as part of those data breaches. So if you're using the same username and password across lots of different sites and one of those gets compromised, effectively, now all of your accounts are going to be compromised, too, because you use the same username and…

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