1. Passwords
Why all the bother?

2. Why passwords? They protect: Theft Examples: Money Information
Identity
Theft Examples:
Credit Card
Sprint
Tax Returns
Genealogy

3. Making Strong Passwords
Length
Minimum: 9 characters
Strong: 12 characters
Very Strong: 14 characters
Mixture of:
Lowercase letters (a-z)
Uppercase letters (A-Z)
Numbers (0-9)
Symbols

4. Making Strong Passwords

5. Password Don’ts Don’t use personal information
Don’t use repeating characters
Don’t use dictionary words, even with replacements
“elephants” or “313ph4nt$”
Don’t reuse passwords…

6. Password Reuse In general, it is a bad idea Exception:
If one website gets hacked, then they have access to all other websites using that same password
Exception:
Username & password combo is unique
Non-sensitive accounts
Account Grouping

7. How to create good passwords?
Phrase
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union”
“WtpofUSiOtfampU”
“Wtp0fU$-101f4mpU”
“High on the mountain top, A banner is unfurled”
“Hotmt-4biu”

8. How to create good passwords?
Combine several unrelated words together (xkcd.com):

9. Password Storage Not good, but very common: Problems:
Post-it note on monitor
Password cheat sheet
Under the keyboard
Browser password saving
Problems:
Number of accounts keeps growing
Needs to be available at home and elsewhere
Needs to be secure

10. Password Storage

11. Password Storage Smartphone password managers Password protected file
LastPass
Dashlane
Password protected file
Contains website addresses, usernames, passwords, etc
Evernote, MS OneNote, MS Word
Password shorthand
Instead of “correcthorsebatterystaple”  “chbs”