Just considering the number of different login credentials that we need, we will have to have a strong password policy for our computing life and it feels like an insurmountable challenge. There are some tricks and tips which can be used to ensure security of passwords. Keeping a strong password which is not easy to track is just the first step. But a hacker can hack into your account. Further writing down all the usernames and password in excel or word file or on paper too can be easily hacked. After signing out or login out there is need to clear history, cache etc. through which again a hacker will be able to hack into your account. And in such cases it can result in losses at the personal level and at the organizational level. This means that there is need of something which will help you with password safety, password managing and password remembering.
This is where you can avail for the password managers for safety of your passwords. The password managers are software which is specially designed for safety of your password. This doesn't help with safety but rather makes it much more secure. There are a number of characteristics in password management which ensure the safety and security of combination of passwords and usernames, accounts and log ins and such password managers are trustworthy. But remember to check for characteristic which makes it more secure.
Encryption: this is storing of login credentials in the encrypted form which is heavily tested, it must be strong encryption that even if the device is stolen thief will not be able to recover the passwords.
Secure resource usage is important to avoid the malicious security cracker.
Self contained functionality that passwords don’t pass on to other software or applications through which the passwords or data can be available.
The password manager must be simple in use and not so complicated as it will be neglected in use.
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