Passworld: A Serious Game to Promote Password Awareness and Diversity in an Enterprise
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A serious game called Passworld game teaches concrete password heuristics (use of uppercase, digits, symbols, avoiding predictable patterns) and is deployed as mandatory training inside an enterprise; the study runs with 4,906 employees and compares game and control groups, logs created passwords and measures reuse and similarity, and finds the game raises password awareness and produces increased password diversity across accounts with measurable reductions in pattern reuse.
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