News | Friday, 3rd October 2014

MMU Password policy: how does this affect you?

To help you keep your online activities safe while studying at MMU, you’ll need to regularly reset your password.

Your password is the key to your email, your Wi-Fi connection and your personal data, as well as anything else you want to keep safe online. We have a number of defences in place to prevent unauthorised access to all these things, but once someone has your password, those defences become irrelevant. This is why it's so important that you keep your password to yourself and that you reset it regularly.

Students must reset their passwords at least once every year, but we recommend that you do it more often than that and have made it really easy to do so. For everything you need to know about password setting and resetting, take a look at our website: mmu.ac.uk/password

We realise that frequently changing your password means you’re likely to forget it more often – so here’s a great little tool which will help. The self-service password reset (SSPR) portal allows you to reset your password, safely and securely as many times as you want or need to do so. You can access it via the web using any browser on any device or from the main login screen of any MMU computer.

Just set up a few security details in a simple registration process then reset your password any time you like.

You can find out more about how the SSPR can help you on the same website: mmu.ac.uk/password