Password Lockers and why you should use one.

What's a password locker?

A password locker, or a password manager, is an application or software that a person or a company uses to securely store a multitude of passwords. Rather than having a smattering of various passwords all over the place, saved or written down in different areas you can find all your passwords in the locker.

How is that more secure?!

I hear you say. "What if someone hacks your one master password and gets into your password locker!? Huh, Sean? What then Mr. IT guy!" First of all, calm down, sheesh. Secondly, password lockers have layers of security to them, starting with encrypting the master password. AES (advanced encryption standard) makes it damn near impossible to decrypt the master password. And even if a hacker did manage to do that, many password lockers keep the passwords partioned off elsewhere.

In addition to that, password lockers almost always offer 2FA (2 Factor Authentication). Just another added bit of security that makes it so that if in the very unlikely case your master password was compromised a hacker still would not get very far.

It's pretty universally agreed upon by security experts that password managers/lockers are secure.

1. "Password managers are an important component of how we need to manage our personal security." 

2. "The vast majority of cyber-security specialists agree that password managers are indeed the most secure way to protect your passwords." 

3. "The good news is that passwords are incredibly secure within a password manager"