I want to start with a confession that most security leaders will recognize but few will say out loud: almost everyone reuses passwords. Not the reckless or the untrained. Everyone including, if we are honest, a fair number of people in our own profession.

A brute force attack automates password guessing until one works. Here's why it still succeeds, real incidents it's caused, and a practical checklist to stop it.

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