Half of the users use the same password to access all the services they use on the internet: banks, emails, or social networks.
And only one in five users gives these passwords the importance they really have to access these digital platforms in a completely secure way and prevent them from being accessible to cybercriminals or through the “deep internet”.
The data has been released this Thursday by various companies specialized in cybersecurity on the occasion of the celebration of the “world day of passwords” that companies in the technology sector program on the first Thursday of May to draw attention to the importance of having passwords safe.
A study carried out by the company specialized in computer security Panda Security reveals that there is a dichotomy between the importance that Spaniards give to cybersecurity and the use they make of their devices in family environments.
According to the data provided by this company, 90 percent of users consider their passwords “robust”, generally a combination of eight digits and that alternate numbers and letters, but in reality, they are not and can be easily deciphered.
Entergy, for its part, stressed that biometrics makes it possible to reinforce or replace a password, and stressed the importance of keys being “complex, unique and private”.
The proliferation of accounts, applications, social networks, or websites causes, according to this company, that users tend to create simple keys and repeat them in different accounts so as not to forget them.
In order to have “robust” passwords, they recommend keys longer than eight characters (including letters, numbers, and signs), periodically modify the password, activate double authentication, and use biometric solutions (fingerprint, iris, or recognition) whenever possible facial).
