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A Study on Password Security Awareness in Constructing Strong Passwords

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Text-based password is widely used by many systems to authenticate their legitimate users. Several studies had shown that users, including professional people, still follow bad habits while dealing with passwords. The users like to use easy passwords to remember the password, by ignoring the security risks. Some users reuse the same password to log into several accounts and even share the password with others without taking any security precautions. A study was conducted to analyze the users’ awareness of the importance of password protection by providing some questionnaires. The aim was to measure the awareness level based on several measurements. It was found that a large proportion of users are preferred to choose an easy-to-remember password compared to having a stronger password in protecting their account. It is recommended that users at all levels have to be educated in terms of their password security and changes in the users’ behavior are very important.

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  1. College of Computer Science and Engineering, Taibah University, Medina, Saudi Arabia

    Norrozila Sulaiman

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  1. Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, Rohini, Delhi, India

    Ashish Khanna

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, Rohini, Delhi, India

    Deepak Gupta

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, Karnataka, India

    Siddhartha Bhattacharyya

  4. Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

    Aboul Ella Hassanien

  5. Department of Computer Science, Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, Rohini, Delhi, India

    Sameer Anand

  6. Department of Computer Science, Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, Rohini, Delhi, India

    Ajay Jaiswal

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Sulaiman, N. (2022). A Study on Password Security Awareness in Constructing Strong Passwords. In: Khanna, A., Gupta, D., Bhattacharyya, S., Hassanien, A.E., Anand, S., Jaiswal, A. (eds) International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1387. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2594-7_35

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