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Properly manage passwords

Properly manage passwords

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Properly manage passwords

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- Password management is important. It's the key to some of your most important information and while we do stress that they be as unique as possible, it can be hard for anyone to keep track of every unique password they have. There are a couple of solutions to this problem. Password managers are a good way of choosing secure passwords and having a safe place to store them. A password manager is a piece of software that stores your password in an encrypted state. They can also help with creating randomly generated and strong passwords, that way, you don't have to think about what passwords you need to create for each website. Typically, all you have to remember is the master password that decrypts and gives you access to all of your passwords. Some of these password managers even have browser extensions that will add the password to the password field for you or generate the password right then and there when you need it…

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