Tech Advisor - UK (2021-05)

MAY 2021 • TECH ADVISOR 91

is ashackableasanyotherpassword.
Increasingly,passwordmanagers
supportmulti-factorauthentication–
usinga secondmethodsuchasa PIN,a
fingerprint,or another‘trusteddevice’
for additionalverification– to mitigate
thisrisk.Chooseonethatdoes.

Protectionforotherpersonaldata:
Becauseofhowfrequentlyweuse
themonline,creditcardandbank
accountnumbers,ouraddresses,
andotherpersonaldatacanbe
securelystoredin manypassword
managersandautomaticallyfilled
intowebformswhenwe’reshopping
orregistering an account.

No online security measure is 100
per cent foolproof, though, as we were
reminded whenLastPass,oneofthe
most reputablepasswordmanagers,
recently
scrambled to
fix a pair of
vulnerabilities
that could have
compromised
users’
passwords
and their
computers.
And in 2017,
OneLogin

wasvictim of a breach that compromised

customer data, including the ability to

decrypt data.

Still, most security experts agree that

password managers are still the safest

way for people to manage their myriad

logins, and we agree that the benefits far

outweigh the risks.

BEST OVERALL

PASSWORD MANAGER

LastPass

Price: £31.20 from fave.co/2M4PqGW

LastPass remains something of a gold

standard for password managers. One

of the first full-featured tools of its kind,

this combination vault, form-filler, and

password generator ticks off all the boxes

in our password manager checklist.

After you sign up and install the

LastPassbrowserplug-in,it captures

yourlogin credentials when you visit

LastPass displays all your login accounts as tiles in its virtual vault.