Tips for Making the Safest "Password" from a Security Expert

In the era of all online services like now, the use of passwords aka keywords to log into accounts is very common. Passwords are important. If made carelessly, online accounts can be broken down and hackers take over.

What is the safest password? 

Etay Maor, Executive Security Adviser at IBM Security, revealed that keywords contain complex combinations of letters, numbers and characters even though they are still relatively easy to penetrate.

Don't Use Short Password

"Even if it's between 8-10 characters long and very complex, the computer can still guess quickly," said Maor, a security expert who studies cyber crime tactics on the dark web. Instead of short keywords containing strange characters, Maor prefers to create a password in the form of a "passphrase" or a passphrase that combines several words at once into one line.

Use Unique Password

For example "I really want to vacation in Maldives". To be safer, use unique words, not those that come from quotes or popular song lyrics. Use spaces between words. Such passphrases, according to Maor, are far more difficult to solve by computers through brute force techniques that can try up to millions of passwords in a second until they are found to be suitable.

Even if the passphrase can finally be broken, he continued, the time needed will be very long so it is not realistic. "Passwords" Still Used Another way to improve security is to avoid using the same password for different kun.

The goal is of course so that not all online accounts can be accessed if one hacker has guessed the password. To simplify this, Maor suggested using the password manager application that can do auto-fill on online accounts while providing algorithms to create safe password suggestions.