Ahh, yes. The username and password. Together, they are the gateway to every log-in at every website, email account and company portal. You probably had fun creating your password for your first hotmail or gmail account. Maybe you channeled your inner sports fan and presto: “pistons2004forever,” or “redwings1234”. But if you’re like most people, you’re logging in to multiple accounts and sites every day. So how creative are you? More important, how strong are your passwords? How secure is your information when you log-in? Here’s a short questionnaire. Do…
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you use the same or similar passwords on multiple websites? Company log-in, work and personal email, etc.
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your passwords contain any human-language words? “go_lions248”
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you store your passwords in your wallet? In your Notepad? On your desktop?
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you change your passwords infrequently? Never?
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If you answered ‘yes’ to any of the above questions, it’s time to graduate to password management software, and more specifically, LastPass Premium.
No doubt, there are many software options to choose from. However, LastPass Premium takes their service a few steps further. LastPass is more than just password management and storage. Your data security takes a few steps forward as soon as you install the software. LastPass Premium is distinguished from other password management solutions by its attention to user detail and usability. For example, when you implement LastPass, it…
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examines your computer environment and recommends the best plugin package depending on your operating system and browsers
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takes an inventory of insecure passwords
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uses its password generator to create strong replacement passwords for the weak ones
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maintains a record of sites that you visit that require logins, and presents the information you need as you visit the site. You’ll have the option to be logged in automatically or manually.
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actively takes an inventory of all visited sites captured by your browser, while importing the logins and passwords so you’ll never have the tedious task of loggin into LastPass and typing sites and passwords. It’s done for you!
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Organizes your lists of passwords by identities, e.g. personal versus work identity.
Additional Security Options: LastPass offers additional security to promote safety and maintain data integrity. You can set up LastPass to log off each time the browser is closed, or you can set it to log off after being idle for a certain length of time. You can even tell it to wipe your clipboard clean of information every so often.
Until iris and/or thumbprint recognition becomes commonplace, we’ll need to continually create and manage passwords with increasing degrees of sophistication and complexity. Sure, you could manage your passwords yourself, but you’d have an extremely difficult and tedious task of generating complex passwords for every site and account that you visit.
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