RoboForm – Personal Data Security in RoboForm.
Personal Data Security in RoboForm.
The security of sensitive digital assets such as Identities
and Passcards has several aspects:
1. Can the legitimate user change her confidential info
and/or delete it from computer with no trace left?
2. Is backup and restore of confidential data available? Is
it easy?
3. Can an unauthorized user who has obtained access to your
computer (physically or via Internet) use your confidential
data?
Here we compare approaches of other password management
services to the RoboForm approach:
Internet Explorer AutoComplete.
1. It is not completely clear where IE keeps passwords memorized by AutoComplete. It is even less clear whether this information can be removed without a trace left.
2. Password info cannot be backed up and restored.
3. Anybody who has physical access to your computer can make IE “remember” your passwords by finding your sensitive sites in Favorites and History, visiting them and clicking Arrow Down key in the password fields.
RoboForm.
1. RoboForm stores your personal info in a known place on your computer and nowhere else. Once you delete RoboForm User Data Folder, all your confidential data is gone with no trace left.
2. You can backup and restore RoboForm User Data Folder easily.
3. If you password-protect your Passcards and Identities, nobody will be able to read them. Even if a hacker manages to steal your Passcards from your computer, he will then have to crack the AES, RC6 or BlowFish encryption used in your Passcards and Identities, and they are nearly
impossible to crack.
How to Maximize Personal Data Security in RoboForm.
If you want to achieve the maximum level of security, do
this:
* Check “Password-Protect New Passcards” in the “Options ->
Security” dialog.
* Make sure that all sensitive Passcards and Identities are password-protected. The Lock icon should be yellow and locked, and the Protected menu item should be checked.
Remember that anybody who can read files on your computer will be able to extract your sensitive info from any Passcard or Identity that is not password-protected — so do password-protect them.
* When you leave your computer, click the “Logoff” button on the RoboForm toolbar so that all entered passwords are purged from memory.
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I hope this helps you!
All The Best!
Terry Russell
A+ Computer Service Technician
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1989-2009
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