“A construction company based in a regional town uses LastPass to share passwords for all their merchant accounts with contracted building supervisors. Each time you visit a website (eg, ) LastPass will automatically copy your username and encrypted password into the website… effectively remembering your secure password for you.

This is a small piece of software that remembers all your encrypted passwords.

Install the LastPass client onto your computer.

This is a great prompt to update your password for each website to something unique, and secure. In simple terms you’ll fill in a simple form for each site containing the website URL, your username and your password.

Load all your passwords into LastPass.

This is the only password you’ll need to remember. You’ll need to create an account which is quite straight forward.

Head to and sign up for an enterprise account (it’ll set you back $24/yr and it’s money well spent).

At Regional Business Toolkit we use and promote LastPass, a robust password manager with great sharing/delegating features.Ĭheck the video below for a bigger run down on the benefits of LastPass or read on for some simple steps to implement LastPass in your business. This is where a password manager comes in.

a mixture of UPPER, lower case letters, numbers (123) and symbols unique to every website/webservice that you use.Īccording to a recent survey by Intel Security the average person has 27 discrete online logins (sites that require passwords) and many of us have LOTS more.

at least 8 characters long, but 12-15 is better.

Your passwords (at the very least) should be: You may as well use the one password for everything and just make sure its pretty hard to guess.

In fact according to TeleSign 73% of adults use the ONE password for multiple websites and 47% of people use passwords that are at least 5yrs old! If you’re still like most people the passwords that protect these records are OK at best. Bank accounts, employee details, supplier contracts, vehicle information and so much more. If you’re like most people the keys to your business are stored online.

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