As we spend more time online, it is very important that we take care of our cybersecurity and maintain proper password hygiene.In fact they are a hacker's dream, and yet they were top of a list of most used passwords in 2021, according to a survey in 50 countries conducted by NordPass.Is it ok to use the same password for all websites?No, this is a really bad idea. You might think that a website is not all that important with nothing of much value to be protected.
And thanks to automated hacking tools, names and passwords stolen from one site can quickly be checked against thousands of other sites. The downside to this of course is that it can be hard to keep track of passwords and if being forced to change regularly means you develop bad habits such as writing your password down and leaving it by your computer then changing regularly can do more harm than good. But there are"password managers" to help with that.Richard Ford, Group Technical Director, Integrity36
Passwords will be complex, unique, stored within a secure credentials store on the device, will be automatically filled in for you and, most importantly, you don’t need to worry about remembering them.I think that this is a bit of both. You should pick a password that is something that you will remember but also has the characteristics that make it 'strong' as per the recommendation of the website you are trying to access.
You can also look at using an application like a password manager or even your preferred browser that can help manage this for you.Richard Ford, Group Technical Director, Integrity36They are unavoidable in some instances, and in these instances we should use secure credentials stores and always avoid password re-use, but most websites and applications allow the use of multi-factor authentication .