Jeff from Local Marketing explains why a password manager like LastPass matters: you remember one strong master password, it generates unique ones for each account, and autofills them at login. Cybercrime is the world's third-largest economy, and reused passwords are a major vulnerability.
And then I would recommend document that, put it someplace, or better yet, and this is not a plug for any of the, I'm going to call it the 1Password type of tools, but I would recommend having a tool where you only have to remember 1 password and everything else is generated for you. I'll give you an example. We use a product called LastPass. And so what happens is I have 1 password that I have to remember that will then get me into all my accounts. Well, that takes a lot of pressure off of that, but here's the other thing for that. And this was a surprise. The other day I heard this, that the third largest economy in the world, US being one, China the second, the third is cybercrime. Let that sink in a minute. The third largest economy. So the last thing we want to do is we want to overuse some, some passwords that we remember, like, you know, our street name, our wife's name, our birthday, our pet name. Password, for God's sakes, or forgot my password. What this does is when you put this in there and then let's say you put your Gmail account there, it'll auto-generate something that don't even try to remember it and then save it. And then every time you go to log in, it'll say, do you want to use? And whatever that password process is, you click it. Yes. You put in your main password, which you remember. Again, I would not recommend using something like I just said. Come up with something unique and put it in there, and then it will populate it.
