How to choose a good Password?

According to Wikipedia's definition, a password is a word or a series of characters used as a means of authentication to prove one's identity when one wishes to access a protected place, a resource (in a particular computer), or a service to which access is limited and protected.

How To Choose a Good Password

Today, the password is a condition that should not be neglected. In this era where digital advances are no longer to be ignored, all online services require a password. If you want to spend time on the Internet, especially social networks, or make your purchases online, you will always be asked to create a personalized account. 

In addition to all the information you provide when creating your account (Name, first name, gender, nationality, and others….), A password is always required in order to protect your data.

In addition, creating a password remains a major problem. You should not choose a password easy enough like "123456" or a password based on your life (date of birth, first name, or last name). If you choose a password that is simple enough and relates to your life, hackers will have no trouble hacking your account and stealing all of your data.

So how do you choose a good password? Follow the next steps to create the ultimate password.

How To Choose a Good Password

First, here are some general practices

Do not use the same password for your accounts

Surely you have multiple accounts and it would be nice to have the same password but forget about this brilliant idea because it can harm your personal data. Imagine that a person in bad faith comes across the password of one of your accounts, then he will have access to all the accounts protected by the same password. Remember to vary the passwords for each of your accounts.

Choose a complex password

Your password should be strong but easy for you to remember. A good password must contain at least 8 to 12 characters, mixing lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters.

Change your password when in doubt

At the slightest suspicion of using your account without your advice, change the password for the account in question. It is advisable to change passwords every 3 months.

Keep your password

Your password is personal so do not communicate it to those around you, not even to your family. With the rise of cybercrime, your password must be kept confidential.

Do not use your password on a shared computer

A laptop is meant to be personal in case you share it with multiple people, avoid using your passwords on it. The example of cybercafés.

Change the words default password service lines

Many online services offer default passwords. Even though these passwords are complex, change them to avoid getting hacked.

Use a complex password for your mailbox

The email address is associated with several online services including social networks, online bank sites, and others. There, you need a great password because if a cybercriminal manages to gain access to your email, he could take control of your entire life.

However, there are 2 ways to choose a good password. In the first case, you create it yourself or you use a password generator.

To create and remember your password, you can for example

Remember the first letter or letters of each word in a sentence

Use the phonetics of a sentence to create a sequence of letters and numbers that match.

Create your password according to an intuition known only to you.

If creating a password seems like a pretty onerous task, a password generator is here to do the job for you. There is a password generator called "KeePass" which offers a complex and random password. The downside is that these passwords are difficult to remember which is why KeePass also has a feature that stores the generated passwords.