Password Best Practices for Ultimate Security from Hackers
August 24, 2021
When it comes to passwords, there's some pretty hard and fast rules on what you should and shouldn't use as far as length of password and types of characters. What I like to tell people, and what even a lot of our business clients have started doing, is use a Password Manager. I've been using one personally for years. I think most, if not all of our staff uses one, and we have a lot of clients we've started setting these up for as well.
The great thing about it is, it will store all of your passwords for you in an encrypted vault. And you don't even have to know what they are. In fact, I use one called Last Pass. And when I go to log on, for example, onto my banking site the first time, Last Pass looks and sees that it's requesting a password, and it will prompt me and ask, do you want me to create a password for you?
And if I say yes, it will create a highly secure password. I can tell it however many characters I want it to be, anywhere from eight to 128 characters. It will create the password stored in its encrypted vault. And I don't even know what the password is. I don't know what any of the passwords are to any of the sites that I go to or any of my systems.
All I know is my Last Pass master password, just that one. So when I go to a site, my banking site, it prompts me for my master password. I put in my master password. It goes into my vault, pulls the actual banking site password, which is 28 characters long, plugs it in and logs me in.
It also syncs to my phone. So if I want to log into my banking app on my phone or my credit card app or anything, I log into Last Pass, and I only have to know my master password. Listen to this episode if you want even more great password tips to make sure you don't get hacked. Many people get lazy and sloppy with their passwords, making it much too easy for hackers to break in. Don't let that happen to you!
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When it comes to passwords, there's some pretty hard and fast rules on what you should and shouldn't use as far as length of password and types of characters. What I like to tell people, and what even a lot of our business clients have started doing, is use a Password Manager. I've been using one personally for years. I think most, if not all of our staff uses one, and we have a lot of clients we've started setting these up for as well.
The great thing about it is, it will store all of your passwords for you in an encrypted vault. And you don't even have to know what they are. In fact, I use one called Last Pass. And when I go to log on, for example, onto my banking site the first time, Last Pass looks and sees that it's requesting a password, and it will prompt me and ask, do you want me to create a password for you?
And if I say yes, it will create a highly secure password. I can tell it however many characters I want it to be, anywhere from eight to 128 characters. It will create the password stored in its encrypted vault. And I don't even know what the password is. I don't know what any of the passwords are to any of the sites that I go to or any of my systems.
All I know is my Last Pass master password, just that one. So when I go to a site, my banking site, it prompts me for my master password. I put in my master password. It goes into my vault, pulls the actual banking site password, which is 28 characters long, plugs it in and logs me in.
It also syncs to my phone. So if I want to log into my banking app on my phone or my credit card app or anything, I log into Last Pass, and I only have to know my master password. Listen to this episode if you want even more great password tips to make sure you don't get hacked. Many people get lazy and sloppy with their passwords, making it much too easy for hackers to break in. Don't let that happen to you!
Do you need help or have any questions? Give us a call!
Get all the links, resources and show notes at https://itoverdrivepodcast.com/13
Host info
Kelly Herrod, the founder and CEO of Herrod Technology, started the company in 2000 to provide simple IT solutions for small and mid-sized businesses. His personal approach, over 30 years experience and his ability to simplify IT sets him apart in the IT industry.
The great thing about it is, it will store all of your passwords for you in an encrypted vault. And you don't even have to know what they are. In fact, I use one called Last Pass. And when I go to log on, for example, onto my banking site the first time, Last Pass looks and sees that it's requesting a password, and it will prompt me and ask, do you want me to create a password for you?
And if I say yes, it will create a highly secure password. I can tell it however many characters I want it to be, anywhere from eight to 128 characters. It will create the password stored in its encrypted vault. And I don't even know what the password is. I don't know what any of the passwords are to any of the sites that I go to or any of my systems.
All I know is my Last Pass master password, just that one. So when I go to a site, my banking site, it prompts me for my master password. I put in my master password. It goes into my vault, pulls the actual banking site password, which is 28 characters long, plugs it in and logs me in.
It also syncs to my phone. So if I want to log into my banking app on my phone or my credit card app or anything, I log into Last Pass, and I only have to know my master password. Listen to this episode if you want even more great password tips to make sure you don't get hacked. Many people get lazy and sloppy with their passwords, making it much too easy for hackers to break in. Don't let that happen to you!
Do you need help or have any questions? Give us a call!
Get all the links, resources and show notes at https://itoverdrivepodcast.com/13
Host info
Kelly Herrod, the founder and CEO of Herrod Technology, started the company in 2000 to provide simple IT solutions for small and mid-sized businesses. His personal approach, over 30 years experience and his ability to simplify IT sets him apart in the IT industry.
- Website - https://herrodtech.com/
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-herrod-27a1633/
- Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/herrodtech
- Email - kelly@herrodtech.com
Resources Discussed/Links
- Last Pass password management - https://www.lastpass.com/