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Volume 30 2018 CHAMPIONS Edition GEOACL, LLC • Silver ‘ASTORS’ Award Winner • Rainbow Password • Best Access Control & Authentication System Dhaval Shah, Director (at left), and Nehal Mehta, GEOACL Presi- dent with the company’s 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Award at ISC East for each character. For example, for Rainbow Text Passwords, these options include font type (New Times Roman, Arial,Verdana), font style (bold, italic, underline or strikeout), as well as font colors, color shading, and more. For Picture Passwords, formatting instructions may comprise of the user selecting an image, then apply- In an effort to combat cyber attacks, internet users ing picture effects, tinting, filtering, folding, cropping, are recommended to create strong passwords with coloring, cutting, zooming, styling, picture bordering, and/or framing to the selected image, or a part of it. a minimum of 14 characters, including one symbol, Rainbow Passwords formatted with combinations of upper and lower-case colors, letter, and one number, style which are difficult to re- and vi- member, which leads to sual el- writing passwords down, ements which are vulnerable to can be credential theft. short a n d GEOACL enables users easy to to adopt  strong, smart remember, yet very hard to hack or crack. and stylish Rainbow Passwords. choosing between a ‘Rainbow text Password,’ and a ‘Picture Password,’ to personalize by choos- ing different combina- tions of given factors Rainbow Passwords are easy to implement and in- tegrate with existing systems, and are compliant with latest FTC, GDPR, and other password guidelines and requirements. In fact, a five character Rainbow Password, is equal in security strength to a 20 character long legacy pass- word. 102