{"id":11849,"date":"2018-03-26T02:30:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/03\/26\/news-5618\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T02:30:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T10:30:10","slug":"news-5618","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/03\/26\/news-5618\/","title":{"rendered":"Because what's more important than being on-brand?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

Manager at this software vendor insists on having admin rights to every system, and she likes to set passwords that consist of the name of the company’s flagship product, reports a pilot fish working there.<\/p>\n

“She would use ourproductname1<\/i> — or ourproductname1!<\/i> if that didn’t satisfy complexity requirements — for production systems,” fish says. “Sending her a copy of our organization’s security requirements didn’t seem to help.<\/p>\n

“Thankfully, as our product matured, more and more of the older systems came offline and were replaced by me with newer systems and secure passwords.<\/p>\n

“One fine morning I received a barrage of alerts that our SaaS product was down. Looking through the logs, I saw a multitude of authentication errors from attempted database connections.<\/p>\n

“I began troubleshooting, but before I tracked down the root cause, it arrived in the form of a helpful message from my manager to the engineering staff.<\/p>\n

“Seems she had logged into the production database’s management console and changed the secure password to one that’s both much more memorable and in line with our product branding.”<\/p>\n

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Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Manager at this software vendor insists on having admin rights to every system, and she likes to set passwords that consist of the name of the company’s flagship product, reports a pilot fish working there.<\/p>\n

“She would use ourproductname1<\/i> — or ourproductname1!<\/i> if that didn’t satisfy complexity requirements — for production systems,” fish says. “Sending her a copy of our organization’s security requirements didn’t seem to help.<\/p>\n

“Thankfully, as our product matured, more and more of the older systems came offline and were replaced by me with newer systems and secure passwords.<\/p>\n

“One fine morning I received a barrage of alerts that our SaaS product was down. Looking through the logs, I saw a multitude of authentication errors from attempted database connections.<\/p>\n

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