Every first Thursday of the month of May, the “World Password Day”an initiative promoted by several companies in the world of information technology and cybersecurity to raise awareness among users of the importance of using robust methods to prevent cybercrime by ensuring unambiguous identification and keeping your accounts safe from mail to bank or your electronic equipment .

The first sentence of a song you like can be an option as it is easy to remember. Example: “Chickens say beep, beep, beep when they are hungry when they are cold.” So choosing the first letter of each word results in: “Lpdpppcthctf”. Of course, you don’t necessarily have to choose a nursery rhyme, the main thing is that you remember it.

This password, which seems indecipherable, contains everything experts recommend: uppercase, lowercase, numbers and a special symbol.

An interesting variant if there are websites that ask you for passwords with numbers or characters such as an asterisk

, question mark (?). There may be the option to add the numbers and the characters at the beginning or at the end of your sentence.

It can also be a sentence that is logical and meaningful to the user -and only him-, or the title of a song and change some characters to turn them into numbers, or choose one that already contains them: “19 days and 500 nights” it can be the impregnable “19 days and 500 nights!” with capital letters and admirations.

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Do not use the same for multiple accounts

Another important tip is to stop using common words or recurring dates.

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The password “123456” or the word “password” are usually the most used and least recommended.

Other options for not using a password

Lambert explained to EFE that the trends point to the use of biometrics (face, iris or fingerprint recognition) and “multi-factor” authentication that combines the password or biometric data with an additional SMS (message to the mobile phone) containing an access code . account.

The person in charge of this information security company believes that these new authentication methods are more secure than traditional passwords “but they are not exempt from vulnerabilities and limitations”, noting that biometrics can be stolen or compromised and facial recognition with high-quality images can be tricked .

Password managers, antivirus and mnemonic rules

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change them regularly and use two-factor authentication, it is advisable to use security programs such as antivirus. His practical advice: make use of mnemonic rules and resort to a sentence that is easy to remember, but thatincluding uppercase, lowercase and numbers; and cites as an example “”MyDogIsABigBulldog!”

which is “strong and easy to remember”. The commercial director of the company specializing in cybersecurity S2 Grupo, Rafael Rosell, added to all these recommendations that the use of a “password manager” where they can be safely stored.