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With the constant ever demanding password strength, it makes us wonder: "How secure is my password?" In this article I'll show you a better way.

Hey, good day folks, I’m André Givogue, your friendly host here for CareerFH!

Ever asked yourself: "How secure is my password" Let's face it, it's impossible to remember all the passwords that we create. We've got some for our personal life, some for work, some with simple words, others request alpha numeric, then came case sensitive, numbers and now symbol and on top of that, some you've got to change them periodically.

Can you say INSANE? Oh right I forgot to mention, on top of all those pesquie passwords, you've got to remember your usernames or which e-mail address you've used and on which site.

If you have no system in place, it will kill your productivity, period. I was consulting with clients showing them how to set up a website for their small business, that they would need various access to "online tools". So for every site, they had been writing down their URLs, usernames and passwords on a loose sheet of paper.

I personally thought it was odd to write everything down but to each their own. Here's why, on our next session, it took my clients about 2 hours just trying to login to their account. When they wrote down the information, like five new sites, it's easy to make a mistake, what if the "I" is a lower case "L" or a one, or zero with "O" and so on, imagine after every 3 failed attempts you get locked out for 20 minutes.

This is when I jumped in and started advising on a different solution. It wasn't part of my mandate but I just had to show a better way. I've been using a system that I've put together since roughly 2004, and it's kind of too bad I didn't think of that before, I could have saved so much time.

Forward that to today, I can no longer understand how not everybody has developed their own system yet. To the point that when I trained my new staff members at Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the first thing I did in their "Welcome Package" was to include a cheat sheet template to be used as a username and password manager.

So here's how it worked, you open up a Word Document, create a template where you can copy and paste the information that you get. Based on my experience this is what you need to make it the most effective.

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With the constant ever demanding password
strength, it makes us wonder: "How secure
is my password?" In this article I'll show
you a better way.
Hey, good day folks, I’m André Givogue,
your friendly host here for CareerFH!
Ever asked yourself: "How secure is my password"
Let's face it, it's impossible to remember
all the passwords that we create. We've got
some for our personal life, some for work,
some with simple words, others request alpha
numeric, then came case sensitive, numbers
and now symbol and on top of that, some you've
got to change them periodically.
Can you say INSANE? Oh right I forgot to mention,
on top of all those pesquie passwords, you've
got to remember your usernames or which e-mail
address you've used and on which site.
If you have no system in place, it will kill
your productivity, period. I was consulting
with clients showing them how to set up a
website for their small business, that they
would need various access to "online tools".
So for every site, they had been writing down
their URLs, usernames and passwords on a loose
sheet of paper.
I personally thought it was odd to write everything
down but to each their own. Here's why, on
our next session, it took my clients about
2 hours just trying to login to their account.
When they wrote down the information, like
five new sites, it's easy to make a mistake,
what if the "I" is a lower case "L" or a one,
or zero with "O" and so on, imagine after
every 3 failed attempts you get locked out
for 20 minutes.
This is when I jumped in and started advising
on a different solution. It wasn't part of
my mandate but I just had to show a better
way. I've been using a system that I've put
together since roughly 2004, and it's kind
of too bad I didn't think of that before,
I could have saved so much time.
Forward that to today, I can no longer understand
how not everybody has developed their own
system yet. To the point that when I trained
my new staff members at Fisheries and Oceans
Canada, the first thing I did in their "Welcome
Package" was to include a cheat sheet template
to be used as a username and password manager.
So here's how it worked, you open up a Word
Document, create a template where you can
copy and paste the information that you get.
Based on my experience this is what you need
to make it the most effective.
You need to have the first line as the URL
or location of the tool if it's on your computer,
second you need your username, password, e-mail
you registered with, and other optional ones
can me account number, date, notes, etc.
Then you password protect your document when
you save your document so every time you open
it up, you have to enter your "master password",
that's right, only one password to remember.
Once you have that document, you can also
send it to your own e-mail address every week,
month or whatever time you choose to have
a backed up copy of all your passwords in
case you computer breaks and yes, computers
sometimes do break down, check out my other
article about best cloud storage to back up
your computer for more information.
The reason having a document with your passwords
all in one place is that you can now use the
"Find" feature, (CTRL + F) and find what you're
looking for in a snap. For a neuroscience
explanation of why my method works, here's
a cool video that explains how your brain
and memory work. The link’s in the description.
Now with a system in place you can take a
strong password generator and just copy paste
the password without even trying to remember
what it is. Beautiful.
Of course that's just one method that I've
been personally using for a long time but
there are other ways too. A friend of mine
is using another free service that's called
LastPass.com where all your websites, usernames
and passwords are stored "in the cloud".
He says it's the best password manager and
form fill that he's found. After his recommendation,
I've been giving it a try and it seems promising
but I'm still going to use my old ways just
because it's been engrained in my DNA by now
and it also acts as a backup. lol
If you really want something more secure,
you can upgrade for like a $1 per month and
use this in conjunction with Google Authenticate
where, you put in your username and password
into the site, then Google sends you a text
message with another code that changes like
every minute. This is almost like the volt's
combination in Ocean's Eleven casinos. Depending
on how big your business is, I think it's
way over kill for me but again, every business
needs are different so no judgement here.
Another best password manager site that a
lot of online professional marketers are using
is RoboForm.com. Just like the other one this
company is a really good alternative, it also
saves all of your websites, usernames, passwords
and also lets you form fill.
Just to clarify, form fill is an automated
way to automatically fill out the forms you
see when you land on a page that requests
to sign-up. Essentially, you fill out your
personal details in the form fill section
once and then with a click of a button auto-fill
everything.
If you prefer an alternative that's open source
then Keepass.info is probably the best password
manager for you.
What about you, have you ever asked yourself:
"I wonder how secure is my password?" And
with the information you've learned today,
remembering one password is clearly easier,
what did you like the most about the best
password manger tips?
Share your thoughts and comments down below
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