- Meanwhile Dave from Accounting has password123 written on a post-it on the monitor. - and only because the system forces users to renew passwords every year and this is his third year - Year? It’s like 90 days most places. - the least I’ve seen was 6 months. If I had to change passwords every 90 days I’d spam them with articles showing this is idiotic every month. - Quarterly is very common. It’s absurd. 
- Yet I have done, it doesn’t work. Because what do I know? I only work in cyber security it’s only my job. I’m sure Bernard the C-Suite middle manager knows better, pay no attention to all the ask toolbars he has installed. 
 
 
 
- I asked him to not do that and the sticky note is now under his keyboard. 
 
- Companies have until January 1, 2026, to create memory safety roadmaps. - Not really the same as dropping entirely - A security feature of our system is that if you don’t know what you’re doing you’ll break it so bad IT will be called right away. 
 
- Or risk what? 
- rusty software incoming 





