Ten tips and insights for hospital leaders:
- The FBI said that simple passwords, even those with special characters, are easy for a cyberattacker to figure out.
- The FBI suggests that instead of using short and complex passwords, to use long passwords that combine multiple words. The FBI gave the example “TechTuesday2021Strenghten!”
- The FBI suggests that your email, financial and health accounts have unique passwords and that they are as long as your system will allow.
- Always set up multifactor authentication on your accounts when it is offered and do not allow password hints.
- The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recommend that healthcare leaders should regularly review the organization’s password management program.
- A hospital’s IT support team should set standard operating procedures for password resets of user account lockouts.
- Researchers found that the most common password for healthcare employees is “123456.”
- Aside from sequential numbers, the two most common passwords from employees worldwide are “qwerty” and “password.”
- In a survey, 44 percent of respondents said they reuse passwords between work and personal accounts.
- Fifty-seven percent of survey respondents said they save their passwords on sticky notes.
