Content in violation of policies or the law will be reported to management. The County may inspect, review or retain any personal electronic mail or any other personal computer records generated by any user of County IT resources. A user shall be permitted, subject to the limitations contained in Government Code section 31011, to review any data pertaining to the user that is collected by the County in the course of monitoring electronic records and communications and to dispute and have inaccurate data corrected or deleted. All users must sign an Acknowledgement of Information Security Responsibility. Appendix 1 Password Construction Guidelines Select Good Passwords Good passwords should be easy to remember, but hard to detect.
Intruders use many tools to try to extract passwords from system password files.
Here are some helpful tips to construct passwords that would be difficult to detect. Many computers cannot accept spaces as valid password characters. Also, be aware of systems that are case-sensitive. If you re not sure whether your selection is good, check it with a dictionary. If you find your password in a dictionary, then it s a bad password.