Handling the Demands of Password Protection in Today’s Online World

Usually, your accounts with various services online are pretty undemanding. If you have the correct username and password, they let you through. They don’t need to check to see if you are really you. If someone steals your password or something, that’s all they need to get in.

Google hit upon an ingenious password protection method earlier this year though. They call it the two-step verification process. If someone does steal your password, that wouldn’t get them through if they used the password on their own computer. When anyone tries to sign in, Google will send a code to your mobile phone. The person trying to sign and will have to have that code as well.

For the ultimate in password protection, security experts ask that you never use the same password in two places. If you have three online bank accounts, a PayPal account, e-mail, a Netflix account an Amazon account and so on, they asked that he have six different passwords.

Now most people wouldn’t be able to keep track of all that. A good idea for such people would be to maintain separate passwords for different levels of security. If it’s something like their bank account or their PayPal account, all of those require quite a bit of security and can use the same password.

If it’s their Netflix account and their Amazon account, those places still have their credit card information and require a separate password. Your e-mail accounts would be lower security yet than all of the above; and you could use yet another password for all of them.

Some people like to use a password management program that stores all of their passwords safely; they just need one password to open all of those up. If you have a really strong master password for your password management program, that would be one way to stay sane and keep all the password madness under control.

A good way to think of a safe and complex password that you will never forget would be to think of a sentence that you would easily remember and then make the password out of the first letter of each word in that sentence.

So where do you get a password manager? The Firefox browser has a free one. Other browsers like Internet Explorer and prone certainly do have password managers – but they don’t allow you to keep those passwords under lock and key. If you have one of the top paid antivirus programs by companies like Kaspersky or Norton, you get a password manager included with the program.

For $10, RoboForm will give you a great password manager as well. That’s actually a very convenient program to have. Not only does it keep all your passwords for you, it automatically fills out every form you come across on the Internet.

Popularity: 1% [?]