Password Managers
The necessary evil
Everything needs a password these days! How do you wrangle all those cats? If your using a sticky note or a book your in for trouble!
What's the alternative?
The best solution is a password manager, something that takes the strain out of looking after the passwords.
What is a password manager?
The basic answer is it's just a store of passwords that you use. Effectively you could use Google Sheets or Excel to perform this task. This is slightly more secure than a sticky note or moleskin notebook.
Passwords managers always go a heck of a-lot further than just storing passwords...
Password Manager Features
Master Password; Alas you need to have a password (Or Finger print or face recognition) to access the software in the first place. But only having to remember one password over many will make your life so much simpler.
Password generation; When you need to create a password, generally your doing so to login to something. Using the manager you can manually create an entry and it will suggest a password, which you can then tailor
Encryption; The passwords are stored, generally in a database and that information is encrypted to help with securing that rather sensitive information.
A plugin; Many of the managers have browser plugins that can perform the handy task of automatically putting in the password into a website login page. This also goes the other way around, it helps to create passwords and logins when your registering for an account on a website. This is workhorse part of the manager
Cloud Storage; Cloud storage of passwords ultimately means it's transferable to any device anywhere.
Password Manager business Features
Sharing! When you get down to it, passwords aren't always exlcusive to one person, it might be a login to a service that your company shares around. A good password manager has that ability.
Permissions and Admins; Hand in hand with sharing is the ability to control who has access to those passwords. A good manager can store passwords in different silo's and use groups to access those silo's. Further you can have Administrators that can grant and restrict access to passwords.
Sounds expensive
Like with any service yes it can be expensive, but you pay OR not for what you want/need. Below are some recommended password managers;
Dashlane; Grown up from a home user password manager to a business tool
1Password; The choice for Apple home users that has also grown up into a business tool
Keeper; Many larger firms use this Simple but powerful business password manager
Jumpcloud; Is an indentiy manager for single sign in that now has a password manager built into it. Think of this as a mutlitool
Bitwarden; Open source password manager! It's free if you want to set it up yourself or choose a paid plan
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