How to Come up with a Good Password?

Last Updated on 2 years by Touhid

A strong or good password is one that is not easy to guess for cyber attacker. So, your aim to create strong passwords using combine letter, special character and number with long enough. In this post, we will give you some important tips on how to come up with a good password.

How to Come up with a Good Password?

It is common case, that we are using weak passwords to remember in our attention like as date of birth, mobile no, employee id, and 123456, which is one of the prime reasons for cyber-attack. So, create strong passwords using letters, numbers, and special characters and change them on a regular basis. However, there are some tips on how to come up with a good password, which are as follows:

• Length of password should be at least 10 characters long.
• The passwords doesn’t contain your user name, real name, company name or institution name.
• Passwords should contain uppercase letters (A – Z), lowercase letters (a – z), numbers (0 – 9), and special character (@, #, $, %, ^, (,), &, *!).
• Example for strong password: K#a48^mn@2 is a strong password and standard password.
• Example for weak password: test123456, jellyfish, admin, password123, 01710393167 are weak password.

Tips to use a Good Password

Already, we know how to come up with a good password for an account. Now, we will focus for some tips to use a good password, which are as follows:

1. Don’t share your Passwords

 If you share passwords with someone, then there has no guarantee that person can keep your passwords perfectly safe. So, don’t share your username and passwords with anyone except in the case of a shared departmental account.

2. Use different Passwords for different Account

It is strongly recommended to you that use strong and unique passwords for different account. If you use same passwords for multiple accounts such as email, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and if your one account passwords is compromised then all other accounts will be vulnerable.

So, it is better to use unique and different passwords for different account.

For example:

• Email account ->Use unique and different passwords
• Facebook account –> Use unique and different passwords
• Twitter account –> Use unique and different passwords
• LinkedIn account –> Use unique and different passwords

3. Don’t save your Passwords on browser

It is a very bad exercise that, we save our passwords on a web browser because we don’t want to re-enter the passwords for next time login and want to save times. In that case, if your computer or mobile device is ever lost or stolen then attacker will get access to your online accounts.

In addition, storing your passwords will make your accounts is vulnerable to your roommates, family members, and visitors also.

4. Make sure your passwords is long

Make sure your passwords length are at least 10 characters long and must contain numbers, letters and special characters. It is suggested that, longer passwords are even more secure than the shorter. However, some websites or applications may limit the passwords length and must have to use combined letters, which is very standard.

5. Never share your passwords via email

It is very bad idea to sending and receiving passwords via email or text message because of security. Email messages are never encrypted and they are often sent in “clear” or “plain” text. Since, the email is stored in several systems or servers and if any one of those systems is compromised, it can expose your password to hackers.

Learn more about  Encryption.

6. Change your passwords regularly

Cyber security expert recommended that change your passwords regularly, usually between 30 and 180 days. Here is the some reasons, why you will change your passwords:

• A cyber hacker may attempt to entrance your account more than once over a period of time. If you change your passwords regularly then it will reduce the cyber risk otherwise they can access your account.
• And if you lose or change your computers or mobile devices, then someone may gain access to your saved passwords. If you consistently change your passwords, then someone finds an old, saved passwords, and can’t login into your account.

Finally, create strong passwords to save your online accounts in order to protect from cyber attack. We have shown you how to come up with a good password. Hope the article will be helpful for you!