Why is it worth it to use Password Manager – privately and in your company?

Why is it worth it to use Password Manager – privately and in your company?

How many websites do you use? In how many banks do you have an account?
Do you have the same password everywhere?
Where do you keep your passwords: on a piece of paper by your monitor, in a notebook, in a text file?
Aren’t you afraid of your bank account or a dating site being hacked?

We often hear about data leaks, accounts being hacked or users’ passwords databases being exposed online.

Reports on this industry websites that promote safety:

You probably use at least a dozen or even several dozen websites and you may not even remember how many there are. In most of them you have the same, or slightly different, password set. You haven’t changed it for a long time. Your passwords are uncomplicated, i.e. Pawel@1969 or Blok@da123. Additionally, some of them probably concern your company’s services.
What is it if not asking for problems that may or may not have very serious consequences? Especially in the case of companies or organisations where you have access to applications that contain very sensitive data.

How can you protect yourself against this?

The simplest solution is to use a password manager, which is available free of charge for users.

A good password manager has the following features:

  • encrypts the password database with your password to log in to the site (changing your password re-encrypts the password database, but losing the password makes passwords unrecoverable),
  • downloads the encrypted password database locally to your device,
  • has applications for Windows PC, Linux, MacOS and also for Android and iOS phones,
  • allows you to test your password database for data leaks on websites e.g. https://haveibeenpwned.com/,
  • allows you to test passwords in the database in terms of their strength so that you can correct it,
  • has a strong password generator,
  • has add-ons and applications that automatically fill in login fields for applications and websites without the need to copy and enter them manually

Using Password Manager has only benefits:

  • guarantees that you don’t have to remember many passwords,
  • you only remember one complicated password, which you do not share with anyone,
  • generates passwords that are not easy to guess,
  • does not require entering a password, so peeking at the keyboard while logging in does nothing

We have been using Password Manager ourselves since the beginning of the company, and we make sure that all passwords are generated strong. We keep both our and our clients’ passwords, and periodically verify that they are strong and haven’t been stolen.
Of course, there are other mechanisms for ensuring secure access to accounts, such as using Social Media Logins or advanced Privileged Identity Management solutions, but that’s another topic.

SCRUM WARSAW

SCRUM WARSAW

In Indevops we focus on development, there’s no boredom here!! 

So right after HackYeah we went to the WORKSHOP WARSAW SCRUM.

It was a very fruitful weekend with experts/coaches from all over Poland on such topics as: SCRUM, Turquoise management, Lean UX and VUCA – knowledge was wavering in the air. Almost the whole company took part in it: PM, programmers, consultants and “wizards”, thanks to which we are smarter by half, harmonized by 100%.

We know the power of being Indevops!

Although everyone is different and has their own piece of flooring in the company, we like to share knowledge, cooperate, be co-responsible and change with the world of VUCA.

Once again we took part in HackYeah! – The biggest IT Festival in Europe. For 24 hours in Warsaw Expo Hall over 2500 IT specialists faced a “thousand” of projects and challenges in 3 categories: Environment, Communication and Security.

In this year’s edition our youngest team members – @Alek and @Łukasz focused on IT Security – chose a partnership project issued by Orlen, whose task was to  

“Solution for verifying the configuration of workstations and servers”.


The tool, built from scratch, met all the customer requirements and brought a number of advantages: administrators of Orlen’s IT operations center perform fewer manual tasks, optimize their time, have a wider view of the data concerning the environment and the entire IT infrastructure. Moreover, the solution is:

  • non-invasive – it does not affect the operating system,
  • scalable – from 1 to thousands of workstations,
  • flexible – you can easily add functions to other options.

They reached the podium with incredible skills, teamwork, devops culture and an unconventional approach to problem solving!


Bravo, Luke! Bravo Alek! We are proud of You!

And here is the work of the winning podium: 


More information about HackYeah:
https://www.facebook.com/HackYeahPL/

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