Tips for protecting your password

Your password should be known to you alone

• Never give your password to another person.

Memorize your passwords or use a password-manager

•  Memorize your passwords. Your brain is the only place where they are completely safe.
• If you are using to many paswords you can store them in software like Keepass (recomended by the BSI).

Use as many different passwords as possible

• Use differnt passwords for different services.
• A clear distinction between business and private passwords is highly recommende.

Write them down?

If you write your passwords down somewhere:

• never store them unencrypted on a computer connected to a network
• never write them down together with the user ID
• modify the passwords in such a way that only you can understand.