Password Management – an Everyday Activity

You may not realize it, but you deal with password management every day if you deal with the Internet, as everyone uses at least e-mail, which requires authorization. Even if you write your passwords on a peace of paper or keep them in mind, it’s still password management. There are lot’s of consequences of poor management – passwords can be forgotten, lost and in the end your important accounts and information can be accessed. This article will review more convenient way of doing this duty – using specialized password management software.

First of all, let’s review the main question connected with passwords – password saving. With the use of password manager you will gain well-organized and secured database of all your passwords, PINS, code words, secret numbers, etc. This data can be caught directly from your favorite web-browser (Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera) and accurately written into the database. The only thing you will need to remember is your master password, which will give access to all the rest. This data can also be used for auto form filling, which can dramatically increase the speed of your web-surfing.

Another place where password management can help you is password recovery. All of us have faced the situation when we type in well-known combination of symbols and can’t get access to the service we need. This is the case when you need password recovery software, where you can enter details about your forgotten password that you surely remember: the length, groups of symbols, amount of letters – almost anything. The more criteria you give, the faster password recovery will be. Then the program "tries" all sequences of symbols that meet your criteria and finds the right one. You also usually need to set up the criteria of right password, for example, by words that appear on the web-page after authorization.

In order to meet good level of information security you need to use many diverse passwords for different services you are subscribed to. Ideally, you need unique password for every service. Needless to say, they should consist of random sequences of numbers, letters of different registry and symbols. For the most of people it takes too much time to always generate new passwords and they forget about this idea. However, this problem can be easily solved with the use of password generator – a peace of software that can easily produce as many new passwords as you need, which will all meet your safety criteria.

As I said in the beginning, we all deal with password management, just the ways are different. Considering all the benefits of password software, it’s strongly recommended to use it instead of "traditional" methods like remembering or writing passwords into a text file. This software will clean your head from useless information, it will increase your web-surfing speed and it will dramatically increase your data safety, which is beneficial even if you only use Internet to write e-mails to your friends.