Most people working with sensitive information want stricter security policies but rarely bother changing default, automatically generated and assigned passwords.
To collect the responses, ElcomSoft was running a questionnaire during the last few months. After gathering a statistically significant sample, the company discovered interesting information about its customers’ habits and preferences in regards to IT security.
Less than 50% of all respondents come from Computer Law, Educational, مالی, Forensics, دولت, Military and Scientific organizations.
Less than 30% of respondents indicated they have never forgotten a password. Most frequently quoted reasons for losing a password to a resource would be infrequent use of a resource (28%), not writing it down (16%), returning from a vacation (13%).
Only about 25% of all respondents indicated they change their passwords regularly. The rest will either change their passwords infrequently (24%), sporadically or almost never.
