Password Protection

Too many passwords to remember?

We absolutely hate to remember passwords. We know we need to do it, and we are aware why, but we still don’t like it. Stolen passwords are a serious problem. When your password in compromised, malicious individuals can steal your identity, steal your money, and jeopardize your online reputation. If you reuse passwords, a compromised password on one website could mean unauthorized access for many of your accounts. If an email password is stolen, access to all of your data and private information could be as simple as searching through your online email folders.

To prevent password hacking, we try to practice good habits by using strong, unique passwords for every website. The advice we are given to create strong passwords consists of….

• Minimum of 12 Characters. The longer, the better.
• Include numbers, symbols, capital letters, lower-case letters.  Mix them up.
• Make each password unique.  Do not reuse.
• Do not make your password an easily-guessable word. Better if it isn’t a real word at all.
• Don’t make obvious substitutions (0 for the letter “O” and 1 for the lowercase “L”).  Too obvious.

And don’t forget….

• Remember all of them without writing any of them down.

Password Managers…making it easy to remember strong passwords!

With the total number of websites you use, there is no simple way to remember all of your strong passwords without duplicating them or needing to write them down. This is where a password manager comes in handy. Password managers allow you to create one single master password that can be used as a the master key to unlock the vault containing all of your website passwords…stored security… where no hacker can get access to.

With the right password manager you never have to remember the passwords for each of your websites as the software auto-fills your passwords for you. Since you no longer need to remember them, they can be as strong as you want them to be. Go ahead and make your email password &Jf4L0mFW3@8M. Will you remember this? Nope…but your password manger will, and will fill this in for you when you sign in. You only need to remember one strong master password and let the password manager do the rest.