🎙 If you have sites, data, and software to protect, then understanding how to stay safe online or cybersecurity is crucial. Strong passwords are essential to circumvent modern decryption and hacking software and prevent anyone from guessing your password.
In this episode, Steve will explain why you need to perfect your passwords and how to do it, as well as offer some practical and simple advice on password creation.
KEY TAKEAWAYS – Cybersecurity: How To Stay Safe Online?
- Remembering multiple passwords for various apps and sites can be a nightmare. Writing and listing all of them down is tempting. Do not do this!
- Do not use the same password for all your sites. If one is compromised, your entire system can be accessed.
- Browser password vaults seem like a good idea, but they are not shareable with staff. They are browser-specific and often accessible on only one device.
- Use an app like LastPass or Bitwarden to consolidate your passwords and share access with staff securely.
- Most password-sharing apps have a password generation tool allowing you to select the length and what characters you use to fit the requirements of the gateway. The app will save that autogenerated password, so you don’t have to remember it.
- The one password that you have to remember is the master password for the password-sharing app. Remember, you lose access to all your passwords if you lose this password. Think of a phrase for length and complexity with numbers or characters added.
- Try using the first letter in a long sentence to create a memorable password. This way, the password is complex enough, especially if you add capitals, numbers and symbols.
- Change your passwords regularly because it is always possible for staff to view a password as it is entered.
BEST MOMENTS – Cybersecurity: How To Stay Safe Online?
4:09 – 💬 ‘You can leverage using LastPass and Bitwarden not only for the convenience and the security for sharing stuff across the internet and working with a team but also to have brilliant, unique passwords for every single one of your sites.’
11:07 – 💬 ‘I encourage you to use a password-sharing app and use the password generator to create unique, completely random passwords for every site in your business and change those regularly.’
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ABOUT THE HOST
Steve used to be a slave to his business, but when he moved to Sweden in 2015, he was forced to change how he worked. He switched to running his businesses remotely. After totally nailing this concept, he spent his time helping other small business owners do the same. Steve’s been investing in property since 2002, has a degree in Computing, and worked as a doctor in the NHS before quitting to focus full-time on sharing his systems and outsourcing Methodology with the world. He now lives in Sweden and runs his UK-based businesses remotely with the help of his team of Filipino and UK-based Virtual Assistants.
Most business owners are overwhelmed because they don’t know how to create systems or get the right help.
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To know more about sharing logins with your team, check out this episode: Small Business Security: How To Safely Share Logins With Your Team
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