Understanding Best Practices for User Authentication and Account Validation

Lets look at some best practices for user authentication. These practices come from what we’ve seen work and not work during our audits. The best practices are as follows:

Image No password caching

Image Minimum password length

Image Validate email addresses

Image Multi-factor authentication

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