{"id":8880,"date":"2022-04-20T07:47:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T21:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intelliworx.wpenginepowered.com\/au\/?p=8880"},"modified":"2025-04-07T04:28:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T04:28:54","slug":"google-password-manager-is-it-as-secure-as-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intelliworx.co\/au\/blog\/google-password-manager-is-it-as-secure-as-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Google password manager: is it as secure as you think?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keeping your data safe and secure is a priority for any business. Security breaches are increasingly becoming more common, and organisations everywhere have had to step up efforts to beef up security, including extra layers of defence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One way to add an extra layer of security is to implement a strong password policy. Weak passwords offer cybercriminals the perfect opportunity to breach your network and access or steal data, by using automated tools to crack weak passwords in seconds, leaving your business wide open to attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

People tend to use easy-to-guess passwords, such as their pet\u2019s name or favourite football team, which goes against the recommended advice that passwords should be unique and contain a combination of numbers, letters, and special characters. The key to this advice is password length, with security experts <\/span>suggesting<\/span><\/a> passwords with a minimum of 11 characters combined with special characters are the best choice to prevent malicious actors from breaching your system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The problem is remembering these long, complicated, and unique passwords. Employees required to log into different sites or applications can find it next to impossible to remember which password to use, leading to the temptation to use the same one repeatedly. This is where password managers come in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is a password manager?<\/span><\/h2>\n

A password manager is a tool like any other, used to generate complex and unique passwords, as well as store them securely and allow users to easily retrieve them when needed. The manager tool uses algorithms to generate lengthy, complex passwords with a combination of special characters, upper and lower case, numbers, and so on. The generated password is unique and unpredictable, so there is far less risk of it being guessed or cracked. The ability to store and retrieve these complex passwords means users don\u2019t need to remember which password to use for which application or site.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Passwords managers can be a third party app or plugin or accessed through browser extensions. Some password managers are fully featured and require a subscription, while free password managers, such as Google password manager, are equally as popular, especially as Google is so widely used and known, and used across both iOS and Android devices. But is Google password manager security up to scratch?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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What is Google password manager?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Google password manager is a tool built into Google Chrome, and available as soon as you install Chrome on your devices and register your Google account. Google password manager creates and stores passwords, without needing to pay a fee or install third-party software, which is very user-friendly. The password manager autosaves passwords and syncs across devices you have a Google account on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Google password manager also:<\/span><\/p>\n