Why Everyone Should use a Password Manager – The Basics

The video above and this blog were created as part of our The Basics series. The Basics is a series of videos answering questions that many have in the most understandable way. No industry specific terms or over detailed descriptions. We created this series to help people understand technology basics that are sometimes explained over complicatedly. It’d mean the world to us if you shared the video or this blog!

If you work with technology or the internet regularly you will no dauntedly understand the struggle of forgetting which password you used for what. You’ve probably had the experience of many trying your 2 or 3 most common passwords and hoping that one of them works. If not then you go a reset your password and wonder what you were thinking when you set the password to that account. Password managers help elevate these issues and make our lives a little bit easier.

A good password manager has good security and is simple to use. This way you’re more inclined to have secure passwords on every site that you use. If the password manager isn’t easy to use most people will opt for using their one memorable password that they use everywhere which defeats the purpose.

Password managers act as a vault for all your passwords all you need to do is remember the master password, and have access to your MFA device. Your master password should be 1 of the most secure passwords that you use. Between that and your email, they should have unique and very secure passwords. You should also make sure that you have MFA set up on your password manager. We’ve made a video on MFA as part of the Basics series click here to watch that.

In terms of which password manager you use it is up to you. We have used One Password and Last Pass and like both of there services, but there are lots of options. We have linked a few videos below that weigh the pros and cons of the major password manager competitors.

Password Manager Comparison Videos: