Windows 10 1903 will help Microsoft modify its security policy: we will not see suggestions to change passwords

On different occasions we have spoken on this page about the precariousness of some passwords The guardians of much of our data and of doing that these remain safe, they are not quite as strong as they seem on many occasions. The lists of unreliable passwords reflect this, some lists that are repeated year after year. And as if that were not enough, you have to count on those that are exposed.

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To remedy these problems, some companies thought it best to change passwords periodicallyIn fact, you will have seen or come across notices from applications that advise it. You haven&39;t changed the key in the last X, days so it&39;s interesting to change it again. At Microsoft, this practice occurred… until now."

Changing the password is not practical

And it is that when we are waiting for the arrival of the great spring update of Windows 10, the company issues a statement in which it warns that with Windows 10 1903 and Windows Server 1903 will change your protection policy and modify password expiration policies.

The reason given in the statement to justify this change of scenery can be summed up in a few words: human beings are clumsy. Cumbersome and long passwords are of no use, just like it is also useless that we have to change the password periodically without repeating the previous one.

To do so, they affirm that if a password is never stolen, there is no need to change it because it expires and if, on the contrary, it has been violated, the change should not wait to meet a deadline and should be modified on the fly. In this case, they leave the question hanging:

It is clear that continuous and periodic changes to passwords is not the solution to put an end to security problems in our teams. And for this reason, Redmond will stop recommending changing your password, which does not mean that this option will disappear.

In fact it will be possible to continue configuring the expiration of the password if the user wishes. The password expiration security option will still be present in Windows 10, except that it will no longer appear as a recommendation.

In this sense, it may be more than interesting to use the Microsoft Authenticator application, an app that allows you to log in to your Microsoft account without a password.It relies on the mobile and the use of a fingerprint, facial recognition or a PIN. A utility that will benefit from the arrival of additions that will make users forget about the use of passwords or at least how we have conceived it up to now.