All password managers have one big responsibility and that is to provide a secure way to store and protect all of each user's passwords. These are made accessible to the user with a 'Master Password' that must be very strong and thereby defeat the password hacker's armoury of methods to discover them.
I offer this as food for your thoughts: is an online password manager safer than a printed spreadsheet that you keep in your home office desk drawer? Would a very safe password manager be better, more secure and convenient and accessible at any time anyplace that you have an internet connection? I am not going to try to convince you either way but I will try to explain in this blog how hackers find your passwords and the dangers of many of our 'worst practice' behaviours.
One thing is for sure: very few people use 'best practice' behaviours (I am guilty as charged) and Password Managers, as a genre, do facilitate and encourage a good defensive personal strategy for dealing with most of the threats.
In the next post I will try to describe who your enemies are because that will be the starting point of your password best practice renaissance.
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