IT departments often take the time to be proactive (at least if they’re doing their jobs), and educate staff about using complex passwords, changing passwords frequently, avoiding phishing by not clicking on unknown email links and attachments, and all the other standard protections we know to take. But we sometimes forget that amidst all the technical precautions, we must also take physical precautions. Passwords, PINs, and other sensitive information often comes in printed form before we commit them to memory. It may be in the form of a letter from a bank or a memo from the IT department, or it may even be a password that we wrote down on a piece of paper and stuck in a drawer. What happens to this paper?
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Physical protection of passwords and sensitive information