Dashlane Password Manager - Simple, Affordable and Reliable

Many of us have very poor password management practices.
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Lastpass
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And Dashlane
www.dashlane.com

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Steve Dotto here. How the heck are you doing
this fine day? Me? Well if the truth be known,
I’m a wee tad bit frustrated that I’m
doing this type of a demo again but I’ve
been reading new stories that people’s password
protocols still suck. Apparently, the worst
passwords of 2014 were pretty much the same
passwords as people were using in 2013. The
#1 worst password was again 1234456. Brilliant,
if you’re using that. Second most popular
was the word “password” as your password
and it goes on and on with poor password management.
Here’s the challenge that we face. If you’ve
got your accounts and you got poor passwords,
the same password being repeated or a weak
password, the challenge that we have is a)
almost all of our accounts is attached to
our email address. That’s our account names
so it’s very easy to identify us because
of that, either that or say our Facebook profile.
If we’ve got a week password and one of
the accounts that we’re dealing with gets
compromised then they’ve got access to not
only our password but also our username, which
probably translates into multiple other accounts,
meaning they can get access to other information.
That alone should scare the pants off you
but when you add to the fact that most breeches
occurs and the company is not aware that breaches
occurred for weeks or even months until after
it’s happened and then they let us know
about it, there’s going to be a period of
maybe several months that people have access
to everything about you and you don’t know
anything about it. That puts you at risk and
it also put your employer, and you friends
and your family at risk as well because information
coming from you to them, they believe is trusted
information, coming from a trusted source.
They don’t realize how poor your password
protection is. Consequently, you’re putting
everybody at risk.
It’s a huge issue and it’s something that
we should do something about and it’s not
that difficult to do something about it. I’ve
showed you in the past setting up LastPass,
which is the password manager that I use.
It’s a little bit difficult to use in some
ways for some people. It takes some getting
used to. So I discovered recently another
password manager, which is kind of in the
same vein as LastPass but maybe a little bit
easier to use. It’s called Dashlane and
it’s also very inexpensive. One thing I
like about LastPass is what a bargain it is
for the price.
So I installed Dashlane on my system as well
and I’m just going to take you through some
of the top-level things to try and get you
to understand how effective and easy this
is for you to use, what the benefits might
be and see if we can’t get you moving in
the direction of one of these or another password
manager. So once again today on DottoTech,
it’s password managers.
I know I’m starting to sound like a little
bit of a grumpy bear because I keep coming
back to the same issue. Do I sound crabby,
as it is? It’s because since back then from
the days of my TV show I’ve been harping
on effective password management for people
and we know that in a lot of cases, I’ll
just keep on fighting the good fight and hope
that people eventually get it.
So I’ve got this new one called Dashlane
installed which I want to show you. Now you
can go visit Dashlane.com. You see a lot of
ads. They’ve been running a lot of ads for
it lately. It’s a nice, simple password
manager but the key to it is it’s cross-platform.
We basically can set up the same account and
use it on our computers, notebooks and on
our mobile devices, which is essential. Once
again for the most part, you’re going to
be using it through your browser or through
your mobile device. So let me just talk you
through the basic set up because setting it
up is I think where a lot of people stop and
they don’t kind of move ahead. They’re
kind of afraid to do that first click and
kind of get into the process.
You can start with a free account. You can
upgrade to premium at any point and the premium
service costs $40 a year in this case. It’s
a little bit more than I paid for LastPass
but still really reasonable dollars, especially
when you consider some of the other password
managers cost. So for the free version, you
get the free password manager which is a piece
of software that installs on your desktop
but also there are extensions that are installed
on your browsers because that’s where you
use it the most. They’ve got your auto-fill
feature, a nice digital wallet which should
help you in the e-commerce world, storing
your credit cards and making it more convenient
and it works with all the platforms.
What you don’t get is mainly you don’t
get to sync across your platforms. This is
the big one right here. You don’t get a
backup which might be a big deal, but a bigger
deal I think is the fact that you don’t
get to sync it with your smartphones, etc.
It’s really just for the desktop but it
will give you an idea of how it works. You
can play with it and use it for a little bit.
You can even install LastPass, play with that
and then decide which one you actually want
to move into when you move it over to mobility.
One of the cool things about Dashlane which
I really like is the ability to share passwords.
They’ve got an enterprise or a team version,
which might be really useful in the office
environment where you’ve got access to a
client’s account for a short period of time
or something like that and you want to give
team members access. If multiple people have
Dashlane, you can share account information
and share access in a secure environment,
which is a pretty cool way of using it. It’s
also really useful say if you’re travelling
abroad and you want to give a family member
access bank account while you’re gone, you
can do it through Dashlane so you’re not
sending it out the account information in
the public, kind of over in email or over
multiple emails or something like that. Those
are the basic differences between the versions.
When you install it, the process is quite
simple. On the Mac version what I did is I
downloaded an app and this the app here which
I installed. As I went to install the app,
the first thing they asked me to set up is
a master password. So you have to create one
really good password that you have to remember
and that master password then controls all
of the other passwords. It keeps them encrypted
and kind of behind a firewall. So you have
to keep track of your master password. It
has to be at least eight digits long, it has
to have capital letters as well as numbers.
So make that a really robust, good and as
cryptic of password as is possible.
Once you set that up, then they will go through
your computer and they’ll look on your browser
for any passwords and accounts that happen
to be embedded already in your browser because
you know as you’re going through your day-to-day
activities, sometimes your browser is saving
password and account information. So it strips
all of that out of your browsers and allows
you to set those up as kind of your starter
set of accounts. That’s what I did. For
the most part for me, they’re really old
accounts that I really never use anymore because
I moved everything over into LastPass but
it does give us a base to work from for this
demonstration.
Then they ask for permission to install the
browser extension. For the most part, you’re
going to be using Dashlane in your browser.
So I’ve got it here running on Chrome right
here and you can see the browser extension,
right here in the corner. Actually, LastPass
works the exact same way. Most password managers
are going to install as an extension. This
recognized that I have Firefox, Chrome and
Safari. It installed in all of them and it
will sync across all of those at the same
time. The syncing that’s in the premium
version is syncing across devices, not syncing
within the same computer, if that makes sense
to you.
So once that’s done, it’s pretty straightforward.
Here are the accounts that it’s found for
me and it’s kind of set up. It goes through
and allows us to manage our accounts in this
kind of environment, in this browser environment.
But the thing that I find really useful is
the fact that we can go into the security
dashboard as soon as we’ve set it up and
it tells us what your security score is.
Now mine is very low but these as I say, these
are old accounts that I’m not really using
anymore. It’s looking through and it’s
found that out of 25 accounts that I’d imported,
18 of them have weak passwords and 14 of them
have duplicated passwords. That’s what we
want to go through and clean up. It’ll actually
allow us to begin that process right here
from this panel of clicking on and replacing
passwords, going through and updating all
of the passwords. You don’t have to make
up a bunch of passwords. It will automatically
create cryptic passwords for each. You just
have to remember that master password.
Now when you go and visit any secure site
and you want to sign in into any of your accounts,
there are a couple of ways that you can go
about it with Dashlane. You can click here
in the browser window, on the tool in the
toolbar and it’ll pop up all of the different
websites that you have passwords for. You
can navigate to them just by clicking on the
icon there and it brings you in and it logs
you into the account very easily. It’s very
slick. I really like this. This is really
nice and intuitive. It’s almost like a bookmarking
service that they’ve got here.
Conversely in LastPass, which is the password
manager which I’ve used up to now, you have
to go in and you have to start typing in each
of the sites basically in this. You can see
that their menu is a little more utilitarian.
It might be a little more powerful in some
ways but a little less user friendly so you
get the idea of the difference between the
two apps just from that one thing that we
looked at there. But that’s basically the
process that you go through.
If you are signing in on any account—let
me just go to an account that I might have
to sign in. Let me sign out of my Google account
and I’ll show you what happens. I’ll just
go to WordPress. I’ll go to a WordPress
site. There we go. I’ll go to sign in to
WordPress. As I go there, what will happen
is, you see what’s happened here is Dashlane
has brought up all of the different WordPress
accounts that I have ad is giving me access
to be able to log in as soon as it recognizes
which one I’m at. It will allow me to log
in. We’ve got this functionality right here.
You also typically, if you take a look inside
of the dialog box itself, you’ll be able
to click on there. If you just have a single
one, you’ll be able to click on it and it
will bring up the passwords for that particular
site itself. In this case here, it’s actually
showing me the LastPass ones because LastPass
is installed and just confusing things a little
bit. But basically, you can just click on
any dialog box as you go to enter.
Some of the other features that it’ll do
is it also looks for auto-fill. So you also
put in all of your different basic information,
your name, your birthday and your address
and it will look to auto-fill and it’ll
auto-populate that information for you with
your permission with the site you visit which
is a big benefit. It will also do the same
kind of things with your payment system if
you want to store credit cards for making
online payments a little bit easier. If you
trust the system for that, it will work very
well in that area.
The final thing I wanted to show you before
I leave it is the sharing center which if
you have somebody else you want to share a
password with that has Dashlane and is in
your community, you can share an item with
them, you can share an email with them which
will send them an email that looks just like
this. Let me go to my updates here. There
it is right there. They send an email that
includes the password. The password is not
in the open but basically you’ve got an
HTML or a web link which you can click which
will then launch the app to give them access
to an app, which is great if you are a services
company and you need to give somebody access
to your Facebook page for a short period of
time or something like that. You can get them
to sign in if you want through this sort of
secure environment where you control the access
for a period of time. That’s one of the
nice features of Dashlane. They’ve kind
of thought through that team environment quite
well.
The bottom line is I don’t care whether
you use LastPass, whether you use a tool like
OnePassword, whether you use KeyPass, whether
you use Dashlane, find one that resonates
for you that you think you can figure out
and you can use and start to use it. It’s
only step one in the security process. You
should also do two-factor authentication which
we have video on which you should be watching
and taking advantage of. That’s a really
good way to really up your level of personal
security but this is the first step—good
username and good password management.
I think Dashlane, I’m giving it a big thumbs
up. I really like the interface. I’m not
sure I’m going to switch over from LastPass
because I’m used to using LastPass and I’ve
had it for so long but if I was starting out,
I would not hesitate making my first step
being the first step onto Dashlane. I think
it’s an awesome introduction.
I hope you found this video today to be useful.
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