The National Creditors Bar Association Law Practice Management Blog

Password management is no sweat these days -- with tools like  LastPass , a master password  unlocks all doors .  Not only will such a service obviate the need for memorizing any passwords, it will also automatically  create s  secure passwords for you.  No fuss, no muss.   But, what if you don’t have the volume of accounts that would necessitate the use of a service like LastPass?  Or, what if you’re old school, and like creating your own passwords -- you know, ones that you can remember without an assistive device.  I get it.   There’s still a world for you.   Try passphrases .  Whereas most passwords include numbers, special characters, uppercase and lowercase letters, you don’t necessarily  need  all that jazz.  Passphrases are just  combinations of words and phrases that are  potentially  meaningless to the rest of the planet, but have some significance to you.  T...

Do you reuse the same passwords over and over again?  Or, do you find yourself creating  ever  simpler passwords, so they’re easier to remember?   Do you instead use really complicated passwords that you keep on sticky notes around the office?   In the short run, th ese are  easy solution s  to password management; but, in the long term, it’s  a security loophole that’s bound to come back to bite you.   The intersection between personal convenience and data security is a password manager.  With a password management tool ,  you select a master password for your account, then choose passwords for each of your othe r  accounts -- and the password manager will prefill all of those other passwords for  you ,  which will  allow you to create passwords that are hypercomplex, without the necessity for memorizing them.  For example, if you’ve logged into your password manager, when you navigate...