PassWord Security

It’s no longer okay to share security credentials by email.

There, you have it.  A line in the sand.

Even if you go the extra distance: to send the UserID in one message and the Password in another, nope.

Here is a tool I recommend:  www.PassPack.com

Some excellent ingredients here…

• Very secure
• Available to you where ever there is a web browser
• Ability to share records with other users
• Ability to securely message other users

And a couple of words about how to use credentials

• Don’t use the same credentials across multiple sites
• Do use Chrome and iCloud services to “remember” credentials (it’s pretty secure)
• Do use non-personally identifiable strings — no pet names, no nicknames, no cities, schools or other stuff like that
• Do use upper & lower case, numbers and punctuation
• A minimum of 10 characters

And change your passwords — I would recommend every 6th time you visit a third-party site … it’s easy, and in a moment you can change the password, update your storage tool and relax.

I don’t change passwords that frequently on sites I own and manage.  In these circumstances I alter the  credential strings perhaps every 6 months.