Years ago we could use the same username and password for just about everything. The upside to doing this is you only had to remember one login.
With identity theft on the rise and corporate espionage being a real threat you can no longer do this with your login accounts.
Today I have three different places I am logging into my accounts: 1) my Macbook Pro, 2) iPad and my 3) SmartPhone. Trying to remember all those logins was getting ridiculous.
Over a year ago, I Googled looking for a solution. After reading reviews I tried a new software call 1Password. After using this for a year I feel good about recommending it to you.
The good news is it is cross platform. If you have a PC, Mac, Android, iPhone or iPad. 1Password can remember all your passwords for you and keep them secured behind your Master Password. You remember your Master Password and 1Password will remember the rest.
I have been using this now for over a year and feel good about recommending it to you. It has really simplified my life with having to remember passwords, account information and more details than I can remember.
1Password Categories for saving information:
- Logins [web]
- Accounts [email, web hosting]
- Identities [personal information]
- Secure Notes [Anything you want to save as text]
- Software
- Wallet [credit cards, bank account #s, debit cards]
You can put all your credit cards into the system and when shopping online it will fill out those long forms for you most of the time.
After you install it on your device you are able to also embed the program into your browsers. Anytime you go to those secure websites where you need to sign in all you do is sign in once to 1Password and then click on the pull down menu where it will then fill out the login information for you.
Sometimes your computer can crash and with 1Password you now can have all your software license keys in one place to restore your software.
You can sync over a Wi-Fi connection or using Drop Box.
Need to generate a new password? I have certain places I go that every 90 days I must change my password. This is the main reason I was forced to come up with a better plan than I had been using. The cool thing is the software creates a gibberish password using capital letters, numbers and symbols for you and therefore making your password more secure than using your pet’s name for example.