In addition to being a password manager, 1Password can act as an authentication app like Google Authenticator, and for added security, it creates a secret key to the encryption key it uses, meaning no one can decrypt your passwords without that key. This prevents anyone, even law enforcement at international borders, from accessing your complete password vault. Travel Mode allows you to delete any sensitive data from your devices before you travel and then restore it with a click after you've crossed a border. If you frequently travel across national borders (or will again in the future) you'll appreciate my favorite 1Password feature, Travel Mode. Be sure to also have a look at our guide to VPN providers for some more ideas on how you can upgrade your security, as well as our guide to backing up your data to make sure you don't lose anything if the unexpected happens. We need to offload that work to password managers, which offer secure vaults that can stand in for our faulty, overworked memories.Ī password manager offers convenience and, more importantly, helps you create better passwords, which makes your online existence less vulnerable to password-based attacks. That might work for Memory Grand Master Ed Cooke, but most of us are not capable of such fantastic feats. (Make sure they are long, strong, and secure!) Just kidding. The safest (if craziest) way to store them is to memorize them all. Now that so many people are working from home, outside the office intranet, the number of passwords you need may have significantly increased. The problem is, most of us don't know what makes a good password and aren't able to remember hundreds of them anyway. For seven years running that's been '123456' and 'password'-the two most commonly used passwords on the web. We know they're good for us, but most of us are happier snacking on the password equivalent of junk food. Password managers are the vegetables of the internet.

Keeping track of passwords