subject: Guarding Your Password Collection [print this page] In todays technologically connected world, one of the hardest things to do is keeping track of all your passwords. The average person may have hundreds of home and work accounts, and need to keep track of each and every different password used to keep their data secure. The way most people handle this situation is by using a single or small number of password for all their accounts. Of course, as any security expert worth their salt will tell you, this is the worst thing you could possibly do. If just a single one of your accounts is compromised, you have just lost control of every account that uses a common password. This enables hackers to gain control of people's identitiy and assets quickly and easily.
Thankfully, there is a solution, You can still create and remember a single, complex password to gain access to your web sites by using password manager software. Password maangers store and can automatically generate different passwords for every site that you visit. With a passwords manager in place, a single company's records being compromised will no longer endanger your entire online life.
One might think that this sort of software would only be available on desktop or laptop PCs, but this is simply not the case. Many password manager software products are available on a number of different platforms and types of devices. You can often find them on everything from Android phones and tablets to Mac desktops and laptops. In addition, most password managers will allow you to backup your passwords in some way shape or form, in an encrypted file that you can copy directly to some sort of external storage like a flash drive or external hard drive, or maybe they support backing up your passwords encrypted to the cloud.
Hopefully, you now know more about protecting your passwords on the internet through the use of a password manager, and will be able to keep yourself from a massive loss of time and or money ever again because of a companies security flaw.
