Choosing good passwords
Strong passwords are important protections to help you have safer online transactions.

Keys to password strength: length and complexity
An ideal password is long and has letters, punctuation, symbols, and numbers.

Whenever possible, use at least 14 characters or more

• The greater the variety of characters in your password, the better.
• Use the entire keyboard, not just the letters and characters you use or see most often.
• Create a strong password you can remember

There are many ways to create a long, complex password. Here is one way that may make remembering it easier:

• Think of a sentence you can remember i.e. "My son Jack is three years old in May"
• Check if the system accepts the phrase directly
• If not, convert to password
• Take the first letter of each word to create a new word - using the example above i.e. "msjityoim"
• Add complexity
• By mixing upper & lower case and numbers i.e. "MsAi3YoIm"
• Finally, substitute some special characters
• You can use symbols that look like letters, combine words, remove spaces i.e. "M$Ai3Yo1m" etc

Test your password with a password checker
A password checker evaluates your password's strength automatically - how strong is your password

Password Management
The easiest way to "remember" passwords is to write them down, however they are vulnerable to prying eyes and can be difficult to manage.

We recommend you consider the Password Manager incorporated into the World's Most Secure Flash Drive - IronKey Personal.

With 256-bit AES military encryption, it will not only securely manage your passwords, but provides secure web browsing and automatically logs you in to your accounts.  With secure password retrieval, you will wonder why you struggled with your current system for so long.

Avoid creating passwords using:

• Dictionary words in any language - words in all languages are vulnerable.
• Words spelled backwards, common misspellings and abbreviations.
• Sequences or repeated characters - Examples: 12345678, 222222, abcdefg, or adjacent letters on your keyboard (qwerty).
• Personal information - your name, birthday, driver's license, passport number, or similar information.

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