Our team at Piedmont Technical Experts has extensive experience in information technology and cybersecurity, and we want to help you keep your sensitive information save. One of the best things you can do to protect the information you store on your technology and digital accounts is to use a password manager. In this article, we will go over a few of the benefits this type of program has to offer.
- Password Generation – One benefit of using a password manager provides is that it can instantly generate strong, secure passwords for you. The types of passwords humans find easiest to remember are also the easiest for computers to guess, and that weakness only gets worse if you repeat passwords across multiple accounts. A password manager will generate unique, highly secure passwords for each of your accounts.
- Password Storing – Another benefit of using a password manager is that they allow you to use one master password to access all your digital accounts. As we explained above, the password management software will generate and store strong passwords for each of your accounts across multiple platforms, and the program will tie all these passwords to one master password. In other words, you will only have to remember one password while your password manager remembers the dozens of others for you.
- Multi-Factor Authentication – Password manager programs also use multi-factor authentication to further increase their security. For those unfamiliar with the term, multi-factor authentication refers to a process of confirming your identity as the account holder on multiple devices–for example, to make sure you are the genuine account holder, the manager will ask you to log in with your username and master password, then have you confirm your identity by entering a code the program texts to your phone.