Cyber Safety Tip: Password Managers

Welcome to the 2nd in a long series of informative and helpful tips to keep you, your family, and your businesses safe in cyberspace.

Today’s topic: Password Managers

The need for a password manager may not be immediately obvious. After all, there are existing strategies that seem to work:

• Solution: Write my passwords down on a sheet of paper and keep them in my desk or type them up in an Excel spreadsheet on my computer
  • Problem: this approach is vulnerable to physical access (someone looking in your desk or over your shoulder), and the passwords cannot be accessed if you are not at your desk
• Solution: memorize them all
  • Problem: most people cannot commit tens to hundreds of passwords to memory and which account each password is associated with. As a result, unfortunately, many users end up re-using the same passwords across multiple accounts, which is an insecure password strategy

To combat these issues, today we are recommending 3 Password Managers that will make your information more secure while also relieving the headaches associated with managing passwords.

• Feature summary:
  • Free plan and paid plans
  • 2 Factor Authentication
  • Multi-device support
  • Generate strong passwords
  • Autofill browser plugins

• Feature summary:
  • Free and paid plans
  • 2 Factor Authentication
  • Multi-device support
  • Generate strong passwords
  • Autofill browser plugins
  • Login sharing

• Information at a glance:
  • Open source
  • Free version includes multi-device sync, 2 users
  • Generate strong passwords
  • Autofill plugins