Securing your digital profile depends heavily on maintaining strong passwords. As our recent whitepaper, OWN IT, SECURE IT, PROTECT IT: 2019 Cybersecurity Update, points out, all too often individuals rely on passwords like “12345” and “qwerty” to secure their devices. It will take a hacker mere minutes to take advantage of your sensitive info with passwords like these!

Steps to effective password protection

Here are 4 steps to stronger password protection (check out our whitepaper for the full list!)

1. Use special characters, but separate them. In other words, don’t bunch unique characters (!#@$*) together—space them out to make it harder to guess.
2. Don’t store your passwords in your browser
3. When you change your password, don’t simply add a letter or number to the old one
4. Don’t reuse the same passwords across multiple accounts

Don’t forget to check out our whitepaper: OWN IT, SECURE IT, PROTECT IT: 2019 Cyber Update.

Questions? Contact us.