Crunching the Top 10,000 Websites’ Password Policies and Controls

A detailed analysis of password policies and authentication controls for widely-used websites hadn’t been conducted and seemed to be a daunting effort. To address this I supplemented automated and semi-automated data collection with the utilization of low-cost marketplaces like Amazon Mechanical Turk and the implementation of a system which allows volunteers to add, update, and modify data. I will cover my methodology, analysis of the collected data, challenges, lessons learned, and future plans.sites’ Password Policies and Controls.