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How to Select a Strong Password Without Forgetting It?

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3 Major Characteristics of a Password

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Length of the

password

Unpredictability

ComplexityAbove mentioned characteristics increases security of the password but also makes it difficult for the user to remember them.

With the task of maintaining multiple passwords this problem escalates further and gives rise to Password Fatigue, leading to poor security.

Few Best Practices To Keep In Mind

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Do not use personal information like birthdays, home address, phone number etc. in your

password.

Avoid using common words from dictionary. Dictionary attack is a common method to

crack password

Change the default password if any. 

Do not use repeated words like ‘johnjohn’ or ‘kittenkitten’.

Password should be of at least 8 characters. Lengthier the password more difficult it is to

crack.

Password should always contain a mix of upper case, lower case, numbers and special

characters.

Change your password often. Strong password policy is necessary to uphold security.

Don't give out your password at any suspicious or unsolicited places.

Always set different passwords for different applications.

Never write down your password or share it with someone else. If required, write down a

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Use Phrases Keyboard Patterns

Use Padding

Add Service Name

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Use Numbers

HOW TO SET DIFFICULT PASSWORDS ? (5 Concepts)

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Select any of the common, easy to remember phrase and use the first letter of each word to make a password. For example:

If you select a shorter phrase you can add numbers and special characters to

make it longer and complex..

Make Use of the Phrases

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You can lead a horse to water - YclahtwA fool and his money are soon parted - AfahmaspBarking up the wrong tree - Butwt

Select a particular pattern on the keyboard to form a password. For example: • Press 2nd key from right and left

end of the keyboard from particular rows and then similarly the 5th key. This can generate a password like 1*a64=c/

• Selecting a letter on the keyboard like ‘d’ and typing all the surrounding letters in clockwise or anti-clockwise direction with a mix of uppercase and lower case letters can form ‘serfcx’ or ‘SerFcX’ which can be further strengthened like ‘SerFcX13@#’

Do not use a simple keyboard pattern like ‘qwerty’ or ‘zxcvbnm’ or ‘12345’ as

these are easy to crack.

Use Complicated Keyboard Patterns

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You can add name of the service to your password to make it lengthier.

Add the Name of the Service

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You can lead a horse to water – Yclahtw or YclahtwGm@iLA fool and his money are soon parted Afahmasp or AfahmaspYah()()Barking up the wrong tree – Butwt or ButwtFaceb##k

You can lead a horse to water – Yclahtw or YclahtwGmailA fool and his money are soon parted – Afahmasp or AfahmaspYahooBarking up the wrong tree – Butwt or ButwtFacebook

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Further replace some of the letters with special characters to make it complicated.

You can use a combination of special characters in between your base phrase to make it complicated. For example,

If your password is ‘Yclahtw’ taken from the phrase ‘You can lead a horse to water’ then you can add combinations like ‘<->’ or ‘^-^’ or ‘|**|’ anywhere in the base phrase to make it lengthier and complicated like

‘Yc<->laht|**|w’

Come up with your own combinations and make your password complicated.

Use Padding

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^-^ :)

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You can select a base phrase and replace all its vowels with numbers. Each vowel can be replaced with a particular number which will make it easy for you to remember and will also make use of different characters.

For example, ‘Yclahtw’ will be changed to ‘Ycl5htw’ where letter ‘a’ is replaced with ‘5’.

Use Leetspeak as your guide. For instance, "a" becomes "4" and "e"

becomes "3".

Replace Vowels with Numbers

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Helpful Tools

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You can generate a random strong password by using Strong Password Generator.

Check the strength of your password using The Password Meter

Never use these common passwords

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What’s The Problem?

Not everyone can set complex passwords and still remember it. The solution to not remembering numerous passwords is to use a Single Sign-On solution which lets you add all your applications in a single dashboard which can then be accessed with a single click. Read this white paper on Single Sign-On to learn more.Weak passwords, password sharing and absence of password policy in the company can lead to disastrous situations. It can degrade the reputation of the company or can cost an employee its job. Read more on how to avoid it.

Now go on and set strong passwords for your accounts and don’t forget to look at SmartSignin in case you want to avoid the hassle of re-typing the

passwords repeatedly.

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About SmartSignin

SmartSignin is a Single Sign-On and Identity & Access Management suite that helps in managing the online identities and the access of employees, customers and partners to the company resources. SmartSignin is a product of PerfectCloud Corp. Being an Identity Management service provider, SmartSignin works on a unique patent-pending SmartKey algorithm which allows users to manage their own decryption keys for their critical data. This architecture provides users with complete security and privacy. To know more:

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