Today, you bank, you shop, you communicate, you do business and many other activities online. And this means having many different passwords. You know that passwords are important in order to ensure security of your information. Passwords are like the keys to the locks on the Internet.
Many of us keep one password for all our web accounts. This can be dangerous! If a prying eye catches this password, then the access to all your information is easy for him. That’s why it is advisable not to keep one single password for all accounts. Now the question arises – how can one remember different passwords? Remembering all these passwords can become a daunting task for you. You might have saved these passwords in a text document and kept that on your desktop or you might have written them down somewhere. Highly unsafe!
This is here password management comes. There are many online services provided by various companies/websites that help in password management. These online services not only help you in saving passwords, but you can also save your bills, client numbers, links to websites, airline information, passport numbers, codes, contacts, credit card hot lines and a lot more. You can just remember one
PassPack (www.passpack.com) - PassPack provides a service that is free for now. You can save up to 100 entries for free. Paid updates will be available in the near future. For a webmaster, these kind of tools are very much helpful as he can manage his work well. PassPack saves you time and ensures a safe navigation. PassPack offers anti-phishing protection. It also gives disposable logins also, which are useful to those accessing the Internet from cyber cafes. It also has a password quality tester and generates strong passwords for you.
Passbay (www.passbay.com) – There are two ways to access Passbay – one through the ‘Password Manager” in which log in ID is required and the other through the ‘Webpage Favourites’ for those who do not have a log in access.
Password Safe (http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/) To use this service, you need to make an account and activate it by a confirmation through email. After the confirmation, you can log on to your account and start saving the information. Password Safe helps you to manage your old passwords and to change, retrieve, generate, organize and use new passwords.
Online password services are an easier, smarter, safer, better and faster way of remembering passwords to keep your many accounts safe.
