Use RoboForm for Security and Convenience

At Pro Epic we use a lot of on-line accounts. Web sites, hosting accounts, FTP accounts, merchant accounts, software vendors; the list seems to go on forever. Managing all of those user names, passwords and challenge/responses became a huge task.

At first, like most people, we used one or two passwords and user names for everything. The problem with that tactic should be obvious to everyone. If one of your passwords is compromised, it places a number of our accounts at immediate risk. Security experts recommend using unique user-name/password pairs and changing your password every few months. That is a tall order for someone who doesn't go a whole day without losing their glasses and can't remember what they had for lunch yesterday.

Okay, so we tried to make up passwords that were easy for us to remember, like our birthday, our wedding anniversary, the kids' names, etc. The problem with that is that if your passwords are easy to remember, then they are easy for an intruder to guess. Anyone with any knowledge of you or your family could easily guess most of your passwords in a few minutes.

The last-ditch effort at managing account security ourselves was a spreadsheet with all of the websites, user names and passwords listed in columns. It's not a very secure or user friendly solution. You pretty much have to leave the spreadsheet open all the time as you flit from account to account during a busy day. Anyone standing anywhere near you can easily see and take note of your precious passwords.

A few years ago, we started testing various password programs. Of all the password programs that we tested, RoboForm had the best performance and feature set.

RoboForm helps us to keep track of all of our hundreds of on-line accounts. All we have to do is to remember the master password and RoboForm does the rest. It will remember new user names and passwords as they are created. It will even recognize when an existing password is updated, and will store the new password and make a note of the previous password and when it was changed.

RoboForm will store your confidential personal and business information and make it available to you at the click of your mouse. We use it to keep track of bank account and credit card numbers, membership numbers, tax IDs and all of the other details that link our business and personal lives with our on-line activities.

All data is stored in discreet files that RoboForm calls passcards. There are different kinds of passcards for safenotes, identities, etc., but the idea is the same for all of them. Each file is encrypted and stored on your local hard drive, so your data is secured from anyone who doesn't have your master password. The files can be individually unlocked and printed, shared, or emailed to another person. Because each passcard is in a separate file, it is easy to copy your passcards to another location for safe keeping. We keep a copy of the RoboForm installation program, our registration information and all of our passcards on a thumbdrive and then store the thumbdrive in a safe and remote location.

We have come to depend on RoboForm and couldn't make it through a single day without it.

If you want to learn more about what RoboForm can do for you, then follow this link to http://RoboForm.Pro-Epic.com.

To download a free trial of RoboForm go to http://RoboFormDownload.Pro-Epic.com. The trial version will work forever, but it will only support ten passcards after thirty days.