As we move forward with our digital lives, complying with the need to “log into” just about anything we touch these days it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain a high degree of password hygiene. There are those incredibly disciplined people amongst us that can perform effective Password Management in their head, and then there are the rest of us that well, can’t. I have previously recommended…
Security Through Maturity
How's your posture?Last week I gave some tips on methods to create a strong password, however these may not be suitable if you have a large number of passwords to manage. In this scenario making use of a Password Manager may be appropriate. Best practice would be to have a different and complex password for everything (such as a website) that you would log into. However, very…
Follows are some tips on how you can create a a strong password. Some might be obvious, other not so… Your passwords belong to you, no-one else – don’t share your passwords! Regardless of complexity, don’t write your passwords down. (To this day I still see passwords on Post-IT notes and whiteboards!) The longer the password, the harder it is to crack, 8 characters should…
Anyone who has some form of online presence will have logins and passwords for various systems that they connect to. Almost all systems that you log into now are on the internet and a great deal of them store a lot of personal information about you, such as your date of birth, home address, credit card details and so on. It has also become routine…