Textual passwords are widely used for accessing online accounts. Despite the problems of current textual passwords, research has shown that there is no other strong alternatives for a textual password due to its simplicity. There has been significant research to make passwords more secure and usable through password composition policies, password managers, password meters, and multi-factor authentications. In this paper, we focus on several key research that investigates and analyzes widely used password composition policies, and summarize the latest research which aims to improve current password composition policies.