Password management software comes in many flavors, including password applications for IT teams to secure privileged assets such as critical servers, databases, routers, switches and applications.

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Wells Fargo looks at multiple factors to authenticate users including name and password, a token in some cases, behavior such as the IP address the user comes in from and what he wants to do.

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We recently had our annual pay increase exercise at my university and it did a number of things, including hand delivering pay worksheets and emailing password-protected Excel spreadsheets to ensure that the amount of the raises given was a well-kept secret.

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There are also highly-effective password management packages to help the rank-and-file manage their many passwords including LastPass, 1Password and RoboForm.

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Most people are far from networking experts (including me) and dare not mess with too many configurations outside renaming the SSID or changing the password.

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However the company offers tips for all of its users going forward, including using strong passwords that mix numbers and symbols with upper- and lowercase letters, not using the same password for multiple accounts, and disabling Java.

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