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Advice on how to choose a good password is not in short supply. You’ve heard all this before:

• Use long passwords.
  • Beatles8DaysaWeek! is more secure than    3x$T*i9
    • and it’s easier to remember too!
• Use both letters & numbers.
• Change your password every 90 days (or more often).
• Even if you have a strong password, you should never use the same password on different websites. Your online banking password should be different than Facebook, which should be different than Gmail, which should be different than your network password at work.

The problem is not that we don’t know this, the problem is that our brains are maxed out with creating and remembering all of our passwords!

When pressed to change their passwords frequently, people use weak passwords, because they need something that is easy to remember. Or, just as bad, they create a good password and then write it on a sticky note, affixing it to their monitor!

So, your security actually decreases if your regularly scheduled changes result in poorer password choices and less secure password management.

Where can our overtaxed brains find help in coping with the quantity and frequent changes of this memory work?

Enter Password Management Solutions: websites which securely store it all so that you just have one place to go to find what you forgot.   Think of it as a vault—a lockbox at your bank.

We recommend Keeper. www.keepersecurity.com

Get an account for your business and a separate account for your personal life.

Is it risky to keep all your eggs in this basket? Not as risky as weak passwords and sticky notes![/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1522944296006{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”]

Many people use popular, easy-to-hack passwords such as these.

Do you think hackers also have a copy of this list? Of course they do!

So don’t use passwords like these!

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123456
pa#sword
12345678
Xxxxxx
dragon
qwerty
mustang
letmein
baseball
master
michael
football
monkey

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shadow
monkey
abc123
pa#s
Jordan
Harley
please
hunter
2000
test
batman
trustno1
thomas

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tigger
robot
access
love
buster
123456
soccer
nascar
Charlie
dallas
Jessica
pepper
1111

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William
golfer
summer
heather
hammer
Yankees
enter
ashley
thunder
cowboy
silver
richard
orange

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]For a more detailed review of Keeper Security for Password management, click here.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]