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The safety of your identity, data and online accounts relies heavily on the strength of your passwords, which is why you should be able to tell the difference between weak vs strong passwords. The importance of password security goes far beyond personal safety, as corporate breaches due to compromised credentials affect millions of people and cost billions of dollars each year. In fact, a recent report by Verizon reveals 81% of hacking-related data breaches are due to stolen or weak passwords.

I predict that 2023 will be the year of Passkeys. Passkeys are a new passwordless authentication method allowing users to create online accounts and sign in without entering a password. Passkeys have been years in the making and finally, industry fido alliance collaboration (fido2) and the adoption between Apple, Microsoft, and Google have now made it a reality. Passkeys leverage the WebAuthn API to let users log into various websites and applications.

A few customers have asked about the pros and cons of a self-hosted password management solution, such as Bitwarden. Since I have a lot of experience with this topic, I thought I would share some of the key reasons to use a cloud-based password manager like Keeper, instead of a self-hosted password vault.

Much of an organization’s most critical business and employee data passes through the hands of finance and accounting professionals. It’s one of the main reasons cyberthreats present a significant risk to finance and accounting teams — especially for small accounting firms that are directly responsible for their security.

No, it is not safe to use unsecured WiFi in hotels. Using any public WiFi network presents a risk to your private information and security. There are many threats that you become vulnerable to on unsecured hotel WiFi such as a man-the-middle attack or malware. Read on to learn more about the risks of using unsecured WiFi in hotels and how you can stay safe if you can’t avoid using it.

How 1Password protects your sensitive data, and why an attack on 1Password would pose no threat to information stored in your vaults.

PDF files have become an essential part of our digital lives. We use them to create and share invoices, reports, contracts, and countless other documents every day.