Overview
Creating and using unique and secure passwords is extremely important. Most people overlook this, in favour of a single password that's used across almost every account they have.
Passwords are like keys to your personal home online. You should do everything you can prevent people from gaining access to your password. Take security precautions, think about the consequences of your actions online and enjoy the Internet with peace of mind. You can also further secure your accounts by using additional authentication methods.
Secure Your Passwords
There are many effective ways to secure your password, here is a few methods of securing your passwords that we recommend.
Make your password strong: A strong password is a password that has uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. Make sure your password is longer than 16 characters.
Consider the use of a passphrase: A passphrase is a memorized phrase consisting of a sequence of mixed words with or without spaces. For example, you might create a passphrase by using association techniques, such as scanning a room in your home and creating a passphrase that uses words to describe what you see (e.g. “Closet lamp Bathroom Mug”)
Change your password regularly: Reset your passwords on systems at least once a year.
Unique account, unique password: Having separate passwords for every account helps to thwart cybercriminals. At a minimum, separate your work and personal accounts and make sure that your critical accounts have the strongest passwords.
Multi-Factor Authentication: Multi-Factor or two-Factor authentication (a.k.a MFA or 2FA)greatly strengthens your device and account security. MFA authentication makes accounts more secure by requiring at least two items of authentication such as something you know and something you have, (e.g. a password and a token, a password and a fingerprint) to log in.
Use a Password Manager: If you feel overwhelmed by the number of passwords that you have, you can use a password manager to generate and track your many passwords.
Password Managers
Password managers are an extremely effective way to store and manage all your unique passwords. Theses applications store all your passwords in a central easy to access hub, that is heavily encrypted. This means that whenever you need a password for a specific site, you can just use your password manager.
This allows you to fully commit to making incredibly unique and hard to guess passwords for each service/site you sign up for because if you forget, just check your password manager.
Please see the article highlighted below for more information on password managers as well as our recommendations: