Generating, remembering and maintaining unique passwords is challenging and nearly impossible today. As the number of mandatory passwords, password length, and password complexity increases, it becomes harder to remember them without relying on risky alternatives such as writing passwords down or reusing passwords for more than one application. Reuse of a password is one of the biggest security vulnerabilities today. Given the recent high profile breaches of company’s user data, if you reuse a password on more than one site you are at risk for all your other sites. Do you know where you reuse your password?

The solution to address this problem is a password manager. Berkeley Lab has now adopted LastPass as an enterprise password manager and you can download it for free from our software download page, https://software.lbl.gov/swSoftwareDetails.php?applicationID=191.

LastPass resides in your browser and helps you store, manage, and automatically provide account name/password information to web-based applications.  As you enter your credentials, LastPass automatically stores it in your safe, encrypted vault.  When you are prompted to provide your credentials, LastPass will automatically identify the correct username and password to enter. Access to your vault is through your “master” password. Your master password is the only password you need to remember.

LastPass has additional features:

  • The ability to sync your vault across any device on any platform at any time

  • The ability to utilize multi-factor authentication

  • The ability to share logins and passwords safely across an organization

  • The ability to run a security check against your password vault to determine where there are duplicates and weaknesses

Don’t wait to get compromised, get your copy of LastPass today.

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