How many passwords do you have for work?

[Judgeneo]

Logging on to my IT today, I started thinking about how many passwords I have to remember just to do my day job...

I have:

Head office:
Encryption
Log on
Phone
VPN
Document passwords x2

Client 1:
Encryption
Log on
Phone
VPN
Custom App
Document passwords x2

Client 2:
Log on x2
Custom App
Phone
VPN

For a total of 19 separate passwords (+ company card pin), I'll use about 14-15 of them in a given week.
Does anyone have more to remember for work?

 

[dirtychinchilla]

1. Security here is terrible.

 

[Bunka]

**** that! I get the mist of rage when password resets are out of sync with each other so I end up trying a ton of combinations before being succesful, and that's with about 5 passwords.

 

[Mynight]

Only 8 for me but they are around 28 characters each.

 

[pepp77]

About 300 customers with a selection of different passwords so remembering which is for which becomes the task.

In office I have about half a dozen different usernames/passwords for different portals etc to login to.

Does get fun at password change time when you cannot use a previous one and it has to have this or that in it.

 

[egnshane]

An ever increasing amount that is stored in an encrypted database, it isn't secure if you can remember them all (well it wouldn't be for me). So I just remember 1 good one that gets changed periodically.

 

[Admiral Huddy]

Just one. We have a centralised portal for all systems.. I need a separate login to our IBM midrange systems though.

 

[benjii]

Out of curiosity, how many of you with loads of passwords create them using algorithms?

 

[touch]

Out of curiosity, how many of you with loads of passwords create them using algorithms?

Every password is created using an algorithm

Sometimes done manually with very simple steps though:
1- Think of a word that you will remember but nobody will ever guess, something like "password" is an ingenious idea!
2- Add "123" to the end of it to make it hyper-secure!

 

[Judgeneo]

Out of curiosity, how many of you with loads of passwords create them using algorithms?

I use this to generate all of mine, I wouldn't be able to remember as many streams of gibberish otherwise.

 

[jsmoke]

Only 8 for me but they are around 28 characters each.

How you remember?

 

[Admiral Huddy]

Out of curiosity, how many of you with loads of passwords create them using algorithms?

No but we have set built rules.. Like must contain a number, can't use the same password in the last 12, can't use the same character in same place and so on.. Pain in the ****

 

[Mynight]

How you remember?

I use an anagram of the service and a few relevant numbers for my last set.

I'm quite good with remembering random strings.

 

[XeNoN89]

I work in It so we have craploads of passwords, probably over 100.

Thank you KeePass

 

[benjii]

That's great Judgeneo.

 

[Atlas23]

All my passwords are 'password', therefore making it incredibly easy to remember

 

[The Dread Pirate]

Not telling my security is my business no one else's!

 

[RoyMi6]

Exactly 274 shared by the team.

Then 24 work related but personal.

One of the first things I did when I moved here was get all our passwords out of a "password protected word file" and into KeePass.

 

[egnshane]

all of them are generated - I use keepass for my personal stuff

 

[anthony566]

I have one as all the sites and systems are linked.