Security experts in general agree that choosing a good password is far more important than changing it regularly. (See Bruce Schneier – http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/11/changing_passwo.html) You gloss over this part, and in fact give atrocious advice (your ‘super-complex’ password is a dictionary word with common substitutions that would be near the top of any cracking program’s list). Furthermore, as humorously illustrated by xkcd (http://xkcd.com/936/), you’re better off choosing a much longer password consisting of random words, mathematically speaking – easier to remember and harder for computers to guess.

Years of policies forcing people to change passwords regularly just make people choose less secure passwords with — for most applications — no increase in security. (A hacker with your banking password is not going to sit on it for a month – once he gets it, it’s already too late).

Furthermore, it seems that most password compromises are a result of phishing attacks or malware infections, in which case it doesn’t matter how complex your password is or how often you change it, since you’re just handing over a current password to the attacker yourself.

See here for more info: http://www.baekdal.com/insights/password-security-usability

I would love to get your take and recommendation on the various password managers, in particular, the Kaspersky Password Manager. There are three perspectives that I would like to hear about.

1. Ease of use
2. Security
3. Can any Password Manager provide automatic assistance with the weekly or monthly change of your passwords.

Great work Mitch.

sincerely,
lisa mckean
905.383.3681

Your salary increases of 3% annually is ridiculous. Private sector employees have not enjoyed those types of increase for years and yet you continue to dole out salary adjustments year after year.

It is time so start showing some fiscal responsibility. Instead of continually adding staff to Oakville it is time to do what every other community is doing and shed some layers of management

Thanks