Passwords

You have access to a lot of sensitive data. Please take password security seriously. Creating and using good and unique passwords is essential to IATP’s cybersecurity. These are especially important for accounts where we’ve used the IATP credit card, bank account or employees’ social security numbers.

• Don’t reuse passwords. Every account should have a unique password.

• Create passwords that are at least 18 characters in length and use upper and lower case letters, numbers and unique characters (such as $, *, #, @, %)

• Manage your passwords with a password manager such as LastPass.

• Set-up multifactor/two-factor authentication for your accounts, especially accounts that access credit cards, bank accounts or social security numbers.

• Change your passwords every 90 days. Again, this is most important for accounts that have access to credit cards, bank accounts or social security numbers.

• DON’T SAVE PASSWORDS TO YOUR WEB BROWSER even though it’s easier. We’ve all saved our passwords to Google Chrome to make our lives easier but now that we have a password manager, we can save our passwords to that! Here are instructions on how to delete passwords from Google Chrome. delete passwords from Google Chrome.