[Blog] 8 examples of bad security advice that you can safely ignore

[brambedkar59]

There’s a lot of security advice floating around the web. A lot. While much of it is solid and will help you improve your security posture, you’ll occasionally encounter advice that is not so good. For example, it’s not uncommon to see articles presenting outdated recommendations or theoretical security risks that have been blown out of proportion. And, in some instances, the information is just plain wrong.

Here are eight examples of bad security advice that you can safely ignore.

Read more here. It's a good read, I was surprised by a few myself.

7 examples of bad security advice that you can safely ignore

Not all security advice is created equal. In this blog post, we discuss seven examples of bad security advice that you can probably safely ignore.

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[roger_m]

Thanks for posting. I agree with all the points made.

 

[oldschool]

Thanks for posting. I agree with all the points made.

Same here.

 

[piquiteco]

"8 examples of bad security advice you can safely ignore" I completely agree. 1 and a half year ago I used to change my passwords regularly, after I read an article on the web that this technique is outdated I stopped, except if there is data leakage. After that I enabled 2FA for everything, now I am relaxed.