Many corporations require you to have special characters as part of the password and won’t let you create one without them. This is in addition to authenticatio

Many corporations require you to have special characters as part of the password and won’t let you create one without them. This is in addition to authentication AND forcing an RSA soft token with a PIN. Many of these firms have had ransomware attacks and attempt to shield by having multilayer network DMZs which you have to traverse to reach a production network. Onerous mesh of required frequent password changes add to the mix. All done with a mishmash of security primitives.