What does a strong password actually look like?

Experience has shown that users, especially if they have to come up with new passwords at regular intervals, tend to choose simple and easy-to-remember passwords with each change. The problem: regular password changes become a security risk for sensitive data and thus your digital identity. It is therefore much more important to create strong and unique passwords that ensure a particularly high level of protection.

Greater security through strong passwords

You should only change your access data if it really makes sense. For example, a service in use was attacked or a password was actually used for several online services.

What does a strong password actually look like?

A strong password should:

  • consist of at least 16 characters,
  • lower and upper case letters,
  • as well as numbers,
  • if possible spaces
  • and contain special characters.

The use of personal, easily understandable information such as first names, last names, years or days of birth should be avoided as much as possible. We also advise not to use logical and simple words, phrases, fixed word combinations and character sets that are easy to guess.

The most important tip: Each password can only be used once. Otherwise, you make yourself vulnerable across multiple services once your password is hacked.

Creating strong passwords – this is how it works

In order to make passwords as secure as possible, we recommend using a self-designed algorithm, for example in the form of easy-to-remember sentences with personal practical relevance. If you put the first letters of each word together and replace individual components with special characters, a complex password is created that offers a high level of protection and makes hacking user accounts as difficult as possible.

Example: The result of the World Cup semi-final between Germany and Brazil was legendary at 1:7 → DEdWM-HzDuBwm 1:7l

Sounds too complicated? Then password manager programs help with administration and creating secure passwords. Our cooperation partner Kaspersky also offers a free password manager for PC, Mac, iPhone or Android devices.

download the version here .

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