By now, we all hopefully know that having the password “123456” or “password” may be super convenient but also easy to crack by hackers. For many of us in the business world, we have so many passwords that we have trouble keeping track of them. There are the personal passwords for home and family use, the passwords for financial applications, work access passwords and the list could go on and on ad infinitum. Thankfully, we don’t need to rely on a yellow sticky note any more or the strength of our long term memory. There are password management systems that can keep all this information safe a secure until you need to use it again.
In a perfect world we could just remember our long list of passwords or use the same password for everything, but in today’s world of cyber crimes making the nightly news on a regular basis, it has become more important than ever to have secure passwords for each login. According to PC Magazine, a typical password manager can handle these logins and passwords by installing a browser plugin to handle password capture and replay. When you log in to a secure site, it offers to save your credentials. When you return to that site, it offers to automatically fill in those credentials. And if you’ve saved multiple logins for the same site, the password manager offers you multiple account login options. Most also offer a browser toolbar menu of saved logins, so you can go straight to a saved site and log in automatically. In order to avoid duplicating a password or coming up with weak ones, most password manager products include a built-in password generator. In addition, almost all top password managers can sync across all of devices so there is no need to worry about remembering your password on your mobile or laptop.
To see a list of the top ranked password managers follow these:
PC Magazine Top Ranked 2017 Password Managers
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