Top Five Reasons to Use Password Managers
Posted: June 11, 2019
Hackers are relentless when it comes to trying to access to personal information. One of your strongest lines of defense is a strong password. But, it's easier to remember the not-so-strong ones, right? Sure it is, until it's not strong enough and you're hacked. Trying to resolve the issues that come with your information being compromised or having your identity stolen is going to be much harder than using stronger passwords. Take a few minutes to research password managers and how they can increase your piece of mind.
Jack Wallen, contributor to Tech Republic, shares five reasons you should use a password manager.
This should go without saying. Unfortunately, it does need to be repeated over and over.
You need to use a password manager. Why? Let me cut to the chase and give you five good reasons.
1. Your passwords are too simple.
This is the biggest reason, bar none. If you're using passwords that you can easily remember (such as password, password123, happyhappyjoyjoy, etc.) you're at risk. Why? Simple passwords are easier to crack. With the right tools (and enough horsepower) a hacker can crack those simple passwords in seconds or minutes. Because of this, you want to make sure that the passwords you use are hard (if not impossible) to remember. A good rule of thumb is that if you can easily remember a password, it's probably easy to crack. The harder that password is to remember, the harder it is to crack. So when you use such difficult passwords, you need a vault to house them. That's where the password manager comes into play.
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