Too Busy to Care

So why are execs so bad at passwords?

Like the rest of us, they think they have more important things to do.

We know passwords are important, but that doesnt make them any easier to remember.

Close up on a password input field on a surface with binary numbers. The input field contains eight green asterisks.

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The Answer

The answer is to mandate the use of a password manager of some kind.

There are plenty of services to choose from, and they integrate with browsers and other software.

A password manager generates secure passwords, remembers them, and fills them in automatically when you need them.

But, of course, theres a problem here.

Is Anyone Good at Passwords?

I thought that perhaps security professionals, or IT people, might do better.

I think this really does harken back to my original statement in the section about executives.

Should be easy enough.