Your password is the key to your data and your most important tool for keeping your data secure. Here are some suggestions to help you create the most secure password possible:

• Do your best to ensure that you are the only person who knows your password.
• Change your password at least every 30 days. (You can change your password by going to your account page at any time.)
• Choose a long password that is difficult to guess.
• Never write down your password.
• Password-protect your devices themselves whenever possible.

Secure password examples:

• Join two small words with a strange character.
• Invent an acronym.
• Choose a line from a poem or song and use the first letters of each word.

Non-secure password examples:

• Name of your spouse, parent, child, sibling, colleague, friend, pet, or towns
• Months, birthdays, anniversaries
• Car or motorcycle registration number, driver’s license number, telephone numbers
• Common dictionary words in any language
• Series of identical numbers or letters
• Obvious sequences letters, numbers, or symbols found on a computer keyboard
• Any of the bad password examples listed above but spelled backwards or with a number before or after it