{"id":128027,"date":"2025-10-06T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=128027"},"modified":"2025-10-02T00:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:27:43","slug":"power-up-your-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/power-up-your-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Up Your Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Week 1 \u2013 Strong Passwords<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Your password is the first line of defense for protecting your accounts and personal information. Weak passwords can be guessed or broken easily, putting your data at risk.<\/p>\n<p>A strong password should be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Long<\/strong> \u2013 at least 12 characters.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unique<\/strong> \u2013 avoid reusing passwords across multiple accounts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unexpected<\/strong> \u2013 avoid personal info like birthdays, pet names, or \u201cGoBishops.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\ud83d\udca1 <strong>Pro Tip:<\/strong> Try using a passphrase\u2014<span id=\"m_1393166679015540807term-def-text-0\">a memorized secret consisting of a sequence of words or other text<\/span> that\u2019s easy for you to remember but hard for anyone else to guess.\u00a0 For example, &#8220;Ialwayswantedtobeabishop!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Your digital security starts with a strong password\u2014make yours count.<\/p>\n<p>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office: Information Services<br \/>\nContact: Jason Cox at <a href=\"mailto:jacox@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jacox@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Week 1 \u2013 Strong Passwords Your password is the first line of defense for protecting your accounts and personal information. Weak passwords can be guessed or broken easily, putting your data at risk. A strong password should be: Long \u2013 at least 12 characters. Unique \u2013 avoid reusing passwords across multiple accounts. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128028,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128027\/revisions\/128028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}