September 2021
Beginner
264 pages
7h 48m
English
Content preview from 97 Things Every Information Security Professional Should Know
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Chapter 80. Password Management
Siggi Bjarnason
I am a very sharing kind of guy and believe strongly that sharing is caring. I am happy to share absolutely anything and everything, with literally only two exceptions. I am not big on sharing my toothbrush, and I absolutely do not under any circumstances share my passwords. There are two kinds of password sharing that I am totally against. The first is sharing a password between sites. I make sure every site I have an account on has a totally unique password. The second type of sharing I’m against is sharing passwords with anyone else. No one has any of my passwords, not even my spouse. You are probably thinking to yourself, that sounds like a lot of passwords to keep track of, and you would be correct in that thinking. I have several hundred passwords in active use. How do I keep track of all those passwords, you ask? Do I have them all memorized? Absolutely not. I’m lucky if I can remember two passwords. I use a password manager to keep track of my passwords.
A password manager is an application that is specifically designed to track passwords securely. Care needs to be taken when choosing a password manager, to choose one that fits your needs and one that is well respected and well-known to be highly secure. When looking for a password manager, look for the following:
Strong data encryption, ideally using at least AES 256-bit ...
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