The team at SecurityOrg has published a report detailing its findings on general usage and practices being employed by netizens where password vaults/managers are concerned.
For the unaware individual, a password vault, also known as a password manager, is essentially a relatively basic form of encryption that allows users to keep their accounts as secure as possible. Of course, the point of a password itself is to keep account details secure; but if we’re being honest, no one really pays any particular attention to the best practices that need to be employed. We look at the suggestions that social media platforms and Gmail give us about adding capitalizations, symbols, and numbers thinking wow, talk about a lot of unnecessary complications, right? However, without said complicated password management, it becomes rather easy for hackers and cybercriminals to gain access to one’s account details. Sure, it isn’t the easiest thing in the world, but with individuals having easy access to techniques such as brute force, at one point keeping passwords that link themselves to either personal details, or sharing the same password across platforms is just setting oneself up.