Should Companies Use Assigned Passwords?
Advantages:
-Authentication becomes a faster process.
-It does not require the memorization of a complex password with different types of characters.
-It makes the user have easier access to applications, often times before it prompts them to generate a new password (even though this creates a vulnerability).
Disadvantages:
-If the password remains easy to guess or if it reaches the public an assigned password cannot provide appropriate security.
-A lost or stole password may be difficult or nearly impossible to retrieve if it is assigned through an application.
-Assigning a password for multiple applications in terms of its authentication can be inconvenient and time consuming.
-It’s highly likely that users will reveal their assigned password by mistake to other employees or people outside the organization which could lead to the compromising of company systems and networks.
-Assigned passwords may or may not be complex, but since they do not come from the user’s themselves, there is always the possibility that a zero-day or man in the middle cyberattack could be unnoticed on the network and copy the password before the user has the chance to create a new one.