Is it me or does it seem like we are accumulating more and more passwords everyday. From work to school to our personal life, we are constantly creating new accounts and passwords that we have to remember. The world is online and with it a requirement to create an account with every site you visit. We have accounts for basically everything we need; online banking, shopping, gaming, social networks, educations, mobile apps, loans, mortgages, and privileged account for systems at work. How do we remember it all? As a student in the ITACS program, we know better than to write it down or even worst, put it on a sticky note under our laptop. Fortunately for us, some systems may have Single-Sign on, like mobile apps where you can sign on using your Facebook account, or Two-Factor Authentication where we have to carry a physical device. At the end of the day we still have to remember some passwords and of course we do not want to use the same passwords for every account. To add on to this problem, passwords requirements are becoming more complex. Rules such as 1 upper case, 1 lower case, special characters, and no dictionary words makes it even more difficult to remember passwords.
There are programs out there like Secure Password Manager, or Keeper that allows you to store your passwords with another password which doesn’t seem to solve our issue. What happen if these service providers get hacked, now all of our accounts are at risk. I’ve recently read an article that made REMEMBERING password a little easier. It basically said to think of a sentence and use that sentence to help create a password that you can remember while meeting password criteria. For example: I bought my daughter first dog for 200 dollar . My password would be “Ibmd1stdf200$” By using the first letter of each word and replacing first with “1st,” I am able to create a password that meets all the password criteria. It’s a simple tip, but I never thought about it until I read this article.
Please see the article for more details: http://www.businessinsider.com/hacker-strong-pass-2016-5?pundits_only=0&get_all_comments=1&no_reply_filter=1