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You change your clothes. You change your oil. Make sure you also change your passwords. An alert pops up on your computer: It is time to change your password again. Sigh. Fine. You will just change from password4! to password5! and― Not so fast. Regular password changes are meant to make sure that even if someone gets your login credentials, they will not be able to use them forever. But if you just make a tiny change or add a digit to a sequence, it is easy for a hacker with the old password to crack the new one using a “brute force” attack. So what’s the best way to keep your passwords strong? Here are some tips: 1. Establish

  Strong Security Starts with Strong Passwords If you use the same password for multiple systems―online shopping, email, your company’s cloud bookkeeping solution, etc.―you are not alone. Even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg is guilty of this. In 2016 his LinkedIn credentials were compromised in a major breach, giving hackers access to his Twitter account, too, because the passwords were the same. The fact is, with just one user password, hackers can often break into multiple applications and systems. Your whole business can very quickly be put at risk. That is why a good security practice is to have a different, strong password for every account. A breach will be isolated to that account, and the fallout will be much smaller