I don’t know about you, but I am getting to the point where I feel I need to start forking out good hard cash for a password manager.
I have password fatigue, I need good strong passwords and they have to unique from all other passwords, and constantly changing or your world collapses, if one aspect of your life gets hacked.
There’s has always been a lot of advice out there for proper password management: Each of your passwords should be strong and unique; use a secure manager to store your passwords; use two-factor authentication to add an extra layer of security to your accounts.
Yet, there is one I am not a fan of changing your passwords often—perhaps once every three months. This advice is so overbearing, many companies and organizations will make you change your passwords multiple times a year in the name of security.
The likelihood, this isn’t actually doing anything to help your security.
Changing passwords makes since when your account is compromised, in no one knows your password and it is a “strong” password, why do you need to change it.
There’s no reason any of your passwords should be guessable. If a hacker is able to guess your password, it’s a bad password, and you shouldn’t have been using it in the first place. I’ll take it a step further, and say none of your passwords should be crackable by a computer, either—at least, not on a timeline where it matters.