For the security of your account, using a strong password is essential. This article provides some methods and guidance on how to secure your password and how to make a strong one.

Making a secure password choice

Here are a few methods for coming up with a secure password:

• Select a password with a minimum of eight characters, but ideally more. A larger password makes it less vulnerable to brute-force assaults.
• Make use of a variety of punctuation, numerals, and capital and lowercase letters.
• Put a punctuation mark (vege%tarian, for instance) in the middle of the word.
• Employ a unique method of word contraction. An apostrophe is not required.
• Choose the first, second, or last letter of each word in a unique sentence. You could end up ycagwyw if you can't always obtain what you desire. You may have yCag5wyw if you add a capital letter, a punctuation mark, and a number or two.
• To make the password more difficult to figure out, you might purposefully misspell one or more words.
• Combine a few of the methods mentioned above.
• Make use of anything that only you would consider. A password that is completely unknown to everyone except you is the finest kind. It's hard to teach you how to come up with them because it depends so much on the individual, but use your creativity!

Tips for selecting a weak password

When selecting a password, follow these tips on what not to do. When creating a password, you should stay away from following strategies:

• using dictionary terms.
• using your true name or username.
• referring to someone else by name.

• using any word from a dictionary that cracks. Lists of terms from a cracking dictionary are used by attackers in dictionary attacks, another name for password cracking. Bible quotations, movies, mythologies, numerical patterns, brief phrases, locations, science fiction, Shakespeare, songs, surnames, cartoons, character patterns, machine names, famous names, female names, male names, abbreviations, cartoons, and pretty much everything else you can think of are all included in it.

• applying any of the aforementioned strategies to a single character that appears before or after it (happy1, for instance).
• use any of the aforementioned capitalization strategies (e.g., Walrus or Penguin).
• use one of the following: mirrored (cat to cattac), doubled (cat to catcat), or inverted (for instance, cat to tac).
• choosing a word and altering a few characters (for instance, changing supersecret to sup3rs3cr3t or password to p@ssw0rd). Attackers can break these replacements since they are fully aware of them.
• using keyboard layouts (such as nbvcx or qwerty). These kinds of password patterns are sought after by cracking software.

Keeping your password secure

Your password should never be disclosed to third parties. Additionally, you should never put it in writing. If you write down your password and someone else reads it, or if you share it with someone else (who then shares it with someone else, and so on), it won't do much good.
Finally, do not change your password if you receive an email from someone posing as an administrator, security professional, or someone in a similar important-sounding role. This is a common con to deceive the unwary.