Question

What are your thoughts about password management? Do you or do you not agree with having rules around passwords, i.e.:Requiring the use of special characters, having passwords of a minimum/maximum length requiring passwords to be changed on a regular, etc...What do you think is the single most important password "rule" requirement?

Answer 1

Password manager is the application that can remember thousands of password securely.

While using a site , say xyz.com it automatically generate a very secure password and every time it can be logged in easily if we save password.It can be used at various site .To protect this we have a master password that unlocks it.That password should not even be a password.It should be a phrase, a sentence,or even a lyric from a song.This raises the bar and makes tough for somebody to compromise our privacy especially when we use a password manager and two factor authentication at the same time.

• Use more than 16 Charecter
• Use different password for every website / application
• Look for security update
• Have a password manager and use multi factor authentication ( Even if a password is leaked once in a while , the other factors will protect from network and from attackers)

I agree with having rules around password since having a simple password can results in issues.Some Hackers have computer programs that can make millions of guesses until something works and if they already knows the users personal information it makes them much easier.Pet name, Birth date, Personal mobile numbers , address can be avoided also no information of user must be included in password.​​​​​​​