Before a parks-department WLAN assessment, the city wants preventiv…

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Before a parks-department WLAN assessment, the city wants preventive guidance on passphrase strength for remaining WPA2-Personal SSIDs. What recommendation best reduces typical offline dictionary wins?

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Prefer long random passphrases or migrate sensitive SSIDs to Enterprise authentication where practical — Stop giving dictionaries an easy day—use long random secrets, or move important SSIDs to real Enterprise login. Shared slogans and recycled acronyms are candy for wordlists. Turning encryption off 'for the test' is the opposite of hardening.

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Short seasonal slogans rotated weekly because dictionaries cannot learn seasons

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Reuse one eight-character civic acronym across all guest and IoT SSIDs for consistency

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Disable all encryption so assessors have nothing to recover during the engagement

Before a parks-department WLAN assessment, the city wants preventive guidance on passphrase strength for remaining WPA2-Personal SSIDs. What recommendation best reduces typical offline dictionary wins?

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