PowHERhouse Winter 2016 | Page 44

Teach Me

Best Practices: Password Management

by Laurie McConnell

"Arggh! What’s my password?!!"

Relying on a word document or spiral notebook just doesn’t cut it any more. If your hard drive dies or your notebook is lost or stolen you’ll be in a world of pain.

As a start to an organized 2016, it’s time to move into a secure online system that gives you one-stop access to all of your important login data.

Look over your current use of passwords to determine what features/functions are most important and take steps to get a secure, easy-to-use solution implemented for a professional and responsible approach to password management.

Visit powHERhouse.com to read Laurie's reviews of some recommended password managers.

"Arggh! What’s my password?!!"

As a start to an organized 2016, it’s time to move out of the spiral notebook or password-protected Word doc, and into a secure online system that gives you one-stop access to all of your important login data, and STOP THE CHAOS.

Changing how you manage passwords can be a hurdle. There’s a feeling of security in doing things the way you’ve always done, you may feel a resistance to paying for password management when your existing solution is free, and concerns about hacking can create hesitation if you’re new to software based solutions. (The security of software based is very good today).