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Making Passwords Secure in Your Healthcare Practice

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Jean Eaton in PMN Replay, PMN Stitcher

In this FREE 30-minute Practice Management Nugget Webinar with Dovell Bonnett you will learn how to fix the weakest cybersecurity link  in your healthcare practice.

 

Dovell Bonnett, “The Password Guy”, corrects the errors, misconceptions and lies about passwords

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Dovell will explain why password management is the key component of managing the cybersecurity of your healthcare practice.

You need to understand how to properly implement reasonable cyber safeguards to:

  • protect your businesses from cyber-attacks
  • free individual computer users from cumbersome security policies, and
  • put IT administrators back in control of their networks

 

 

 

 

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“Expensive backend cybersecurity products are worthless when the virtual front door has a lousy lock!”

Dovell Bonnett

The management of passwords is the real security nightmare.

User authentication is the most ignored risk to enterprise cybersecurity. When end users are allowed to generate, know, remember, type and manage their own passwords, IT has inadvertently surrendered the job title Network Security Manager to employees – the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain.

Dovell Bonnett reveals the truth about the elephant in the room that no one wants to mention: Expensive backend security is worthless when the virtual front door has a lousy lock! Making Passwords Secure breaks down THE SIMPLE TRUTH about Multi-Factor Authentication (and how to make MFA fast, easy and affordable)!

Dovell proves that making passwords secure is not only possible, passwords can actually become an effective, cost efficient and user friendly feature of robust cybersecurity. After examining how encryption keys are secured, this book introduces a new strategy called Password Authentication Infrastructure (PAI) that rivals digital certificates.

Passwords are not going away.
What needs to be fixed is how passwords are managed.

 


Dovell - smallDovell Bonnett has been creating computer security solutions for over 20 years. His passionate belief that technology should work for humans, and not the other way around, has lead him to create innovative solutions that protect businesses from cyber-attacks, free individual computer users from cumbersome security policies, and put IT administrators back in control of their networks.

He has spent most of his career designing solutions to solve business security needs, incorporating multiple applications onto single credentials using both contact and contactless smartcards. The most famous example of his work is the ID badge currently used by all Microsoft employees.

Dovell has contributed to numerous papers for the Smart Card Alliance organization; magazines, including Card Manufacturing Magazine; and is the author of two books, Online Identity Theft Protection for Dummies® and Making Passwords Secure: How to Fix the Weakest Link in Cybersecurity. Dovell is a frequent speaker and sought-after consultant on the topic of passwords, cybersecurity, and building secure, affordable and appropriate computer authentication infrastructures.

 

hosted by Jean Eaton of Information Managers Ltd.

Your Practice Management Mentor and Practical Privacy Coach

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Making Passwords Secure in Your Healthcare Practice

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Jean Eaton in Archive

In this FREE 30-minute Practice Management Nugget Webinar with Dovell Bonnett you will learn how to fix the weakest cybersecurity link  in your healthcare practice.

 

Dovell Bonnett, “The Password Guy”, corrects the errors, misconceptions and lies about passwords

3dTransparent

Dovell will explain why password management is the key component of managing the cybersecurity of your healthcare practice.

You need to understand how to properly implement reasonable cyber safeguards to:

  • protect your businesses from cyber-attacks
  • free individual computer users from cumbersome security policies, and
  • put IT administrators back in control of their networks

Have you seen this?

  • post-it notes on computer monitors with the password written on it
  • computer users sharing the same credentials
  • passwords that are easy to guess

 

“Expensive backend cybersecurity products are worthless when the virtual front door has a lousy lock!”

Dovell Bonnett

The management of passwords is the real security nightmare.

User authentication is the most ignored risk to enterprise cybersecurity. When end users are allowed to generate, know, remember, type and manage their own passwords, IT has inadvertently surrendered the job title Network Security Manager to employees – the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain.

Dovell Bonnett reveals the truth about the elephant in the room that no one wants to mention: Expensive backend security is worthless when the virtual front door has a lousy lock! Making Passwords Secure breaks down THE SIMPLE TRUTH about Multi-Factor Authentication (and how to make MFA fast, easy and affordable)!

Dovell proves that making passwords secure is not only possible, passwords can actually become an effective, cost efficient and user friendly feature of robust cybersecurity. After examining how encryption keys are secured, this book introduces a new strategy called Password Authentication Infrastructure (PAI) that rivals digital certificates.

Passwords are not going away.
What needs to be fixed is how passwords are managed.

Register here for the FREE Webinar with Dovell Bonnett.

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Dovell - smallDovell Bonnett has been creating computer security solutions for over 20 years. His passionate belief that technology should work for humans, and not the other way around, has lead him to create innovative solutions that protect businesses from cyber-attacks, free individual computer users from cumbersome security policies, and put IT administrators back in control of their networks.

He has spent most of his career designing solutions to solve business security needs, incorporating multiple applications onto single credentials using both contact and contactless smartcards. The most famous example of his work is the ID badge currently used by all Microsoft employees.

Dovell has contributed to numerous papers for the Smart Card Alliance organization; magazines, including Card Manufacturing Magazine; and is the author of two books, Online Identity Theft Protection for Dummies® and Making Passwords Secure: How to Fix the Weakest Link in Cybersecurity. Dovell is a frequent speaker and sought-after consultant on the topic of passwords, cybersecurity, and building secure, affordable and appropriate computer authentication infrastructures.

 

Thursday, April 21, 2016

 Join us for Practice Management Nugget Webinar

Making Passwords Secure with

Dovell Bonnett

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How You Can Be a Password Pro

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Jean Eaton in Blog

Passwords. Can't live without 'em, can't even remember all of 'em.

Just about everything needs a password these days. From your email address to your social media accounts, to your online banking and to your smartphone.

But is your password uncrackable?

Hack-proofing your passwords is absolutely essential, especially if you run a business. Small businesses are major targets, with more than 80% being targets of opportunities.

A University of Cambridge study found that 90% of passwords are hackable. Try to make your passwords in the 10% of uncrackable passwords.

Your accounts are only as strong as your weakest link!

Easily improve your password with a password management tool like 1Password, LastPass, Dashlane, McAfee SafeKey and many more to choose from.

As a healthcare provide and /or business owner, you are responsible for not only your personal passwords but also ensuring that all your staff and vendors are also using strong (and really long!) passwords. Doing this for each application for all your internet devices can be nearly impossible. Instead of using the same password in many applications, writing down the logins and password or skip using passwords altogether – it is time for you to use a Password Manager tool.

Password Management_Information_ManagersUsing these tools will:

  • make it easy for you to create and use strong passwords
  • generate complex passwords for you
  • no problem to change your password regularly
  • some will even make it easier for you to create a secure sharing of login and password to an assistant
  • make it easier for your team to easily use good password management

Tip: Don't get frustrated whenever you forget your password. Instead, be proud that you change your password regularly using the “I forgot my password” re-set function!

  • Use your business passwords for work only. Don't reuse your work password on an external website, email, or bank account. Don't use the same password for all your social media accounts.
  • Avoid predictable and common passwords. Choose a phrase that you can remember, and add in the required characters – capital letters and numbers. You can try removing the vowels of easy to remember words (i.e. privacy = prvcy)
  • Use more characters. The longer the password, the harder it is to crack!

For more information see our blog post &Tgh2Crack! How tough is your password

Resources

Rubenking, Neil J. @neiljrubenking The Best Password Managers for 2016, PC Magazine. 2016-Jan-08

Davis, Gary. Password Safety in a Connected World,  McAfee Blog Central. 2013-May-06.

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