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How to Use a Password Manager on Website

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John Simth

Password plays an important role in securing your data from malicious cyber thefts and online corruption and then comes the “Password Manager.” It helps you to create a strong passcode every time and for various websites.

It helps to save your login credentials in encrypted form for all your websites. It uses your primary or master passcode to analyze and encrypt your password database.

Here in this blog, you will know how to use Password Manager and why you should do this.

  1. Don’t Use a Common Passcode on Different Websites

It is always recommended to use a unique passcode for a particular website. It helps you in securing your data and also login credentials.

  • In case you use the same password and login credentials everywhere, then you might be in a problem because some cyber thieves are looking for such a person who uses a common and easily traceable password. 
  • They used to try entering multiple passwords. If they got your match, this single leak could help them to access all your synced accounts, and therefore, they can steal your important data, including your bank or online transaction accounts. 
  • In order to avoid passcode leaks, it is always advised to create and use a strong, unique, and undetectable password on each site. A strong password always contains symbols, numbers, and special characters to form a unique one. In creating a perfect and unique password, “Password Manager” plays a prominent role in providing you a random and secure password with easy to use tips so that you can remember it easily.
  • Using Password Manager for Entering to the Particular Website

You are not required to provide your Email ID, Passcode, name, etc. on every website you wish to visit. The password manager performs these time-consuming tasks for you.

Follow these steps to know how it works by abiding the sequence of these mentioned steps:

  • You have to provide a master passcode to “Password Manager,” it completes the rest of the Sign In information for the website. It applies if you have already signed in to the password manager.” 
  • In this case, you need not run your brain to enter a password for your website. 

Note: In case you are generating a fresh account, then your “Password Manager” will ask to create an undetectable unique passcode for your account. Here, the “password manager” also configured your account data, including your name, mail ID, address, etc.

  • Disadvantages of Browser-Based “Password Manager”

There are various merits of dedicated “password manager,” and on the other hand, there are disadvantages of browser supported password managers. Web browsers like Internet Browser and Chrome have their password managers but provide results in an unencrypted format. However, all the browser has its own managers for passwords, but they don’t secure your data longer. 

The other demerits of these browser-based “password managers” are:

  • Anybody can access the data by launching the browser and as it automatically Sign-in to your account. To secure your data, you have to make encryption security to the system’s hard drive.
  • These browsers lack various functions and specialties to encrypt and secure your data as they don’t create unique and random passcode for your personal data. So, they are not considered an ideal way to secure your data as compared to the dedicated feature of “password manager.”
  • Selection of Password Managers

There are three recommended passcode managers from which you have to decide which one best suits you depends on your preference.

  • Dashlane
  • It works on various OS like Android, iOS, and Windows with its dynamic features, but it lacks in name recognition. 
  • It includes a particular extension for each browser, such as a “security dashboard” that encrypts passcodes. It packs with a dynamic automatic passcode changer feature that modifies passcodes from time to time for providing you a safe technical environment.

Note: It provides free to use the subscription on a single system. If you wish to sync other devices, then you will need a premium one. For a better interface, it also allows you to store all your passcodes on a single device locally as its unique feature.

  • LastPass
  • It provides a two-way verification process for your passwords and works on Cloud supported passcode managers, including apps of smartphones and desktops.
  • It keeps your passwords under encrypted form over the “LastPass” server.
  • KeePass
  • It works on the desktop app without syncing to Cloud as many users are not comfortable with Cloud-based password managers like “LastPass.”
  • It also works on apps and web browser’s “extensions.” It provides an open-source password system over your PC so that you can analyze and audit it as you wish.

Note: In this mode, you have to sync your other device manually and if you wish to do so, and you are solely responsible for all your stored passwords on “KeePass.”

John Smith is an avid technical blogger, a magazine contributor, a publisher of guides at mcafee.com/activate, and a professional cyber security analyst. Through her writing, she aims to educate people about the dangers and threats lurking in the digital world.

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