SECURITY Comparison on KOREAN Password / Authentication Policy and Other Countries

Password is needed to create an account in most of the websites. Each website has different password and authentication policy when making an account. In addition, each country has different trend of policy in making the passwords. There are many researches about strong password and usable password. However, when it comes to practical, real world cannot adapt strong and usable password policy. South Korea is known for IT(Information Technology) and assumed to be secured in cyber space as well. However, South Korea has many problems re-garding the leakage of accounts due to the password hacking. Countries beside Korea also may have analogous situation, but they may have different policies compare to Korea. Therefore, this study generally compares Ko-rean websites’ password and authentication policies and other 5 countries’ policies by gathering policies from Alexa website and suggests recommendations.