Thursday May 6th marks World Password Day, an annually recurring event designed to promote better password habits to help the public stay safe online.
To help people keep their information and data secure this World Password Day, and throughout 2021, Totality Services – a London IT support expert – has shared their top password tips and tricks.
Passwords are critical gatekeepers to our online information and identities, allowing us to access online apps and services such as shopping, banking and social media. With so many people working at home due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, often without the IT support and protection provided when in the office, cybersecurity is more important than ever and the basis of great cybersecurity is using strong passwords.
Small to medium-sized business’ computers and mobile devices (such as tablets and phones) access, share and store huge amounts of information that’s important to its enterprise and its work, finances, employees and customers. Sadly, this data isn’t always safe from prying eyes, even when tucked away in supposedly hard-to-reach, password-protected places.
According to the UK’s Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), smaller enterprises are collectively subject to almost 10,000 cyber-attacks a day. One in five small firms say they’ve suffered a cyber-attack in the last two years. What’s more, the annual cost of such IT security attacks to the small business community is estimated to be £4.5 billion
The FSB research highlights the scale of the problem: one in three small firms say they have not installed security software over the past two years; four in ten do not regularly update their software or their IT systems or back up their data; fewer than half have a strict password policy for devices.
Luis Navarro, Co-Founder of IT support experts, Totality Services, said: “At Totality, we appreciate passwords are the bane of modern life! But we can’t stress how important they are to keep both your personal and business data secure.
“Creating strong, easy to remember but hard to crack versions can seem a challenge. However, it’s actually easier than you think. In reality, you don’t need a random jumble of numbers, letters and symbols to keep the cyber-criminals at bay.
“Hopefully these easy to digest and implement tips can help us stay safe online, not just this World Password Day, but for the foreseeable future.”
Totality Services’ tips and tricks are to:
To learn more about Totality Services, please visit: https://totalityservices.co.uk/