Email Password Security Tips (Hint: change your password. Now.)

Raj Patel, a partner and tech security expert at Plante Moran, offers three quick tips for email security in a news release I recently wrote for the firm.

• Use tiered passwords. Don’t use the same password for all sites.  Just like you have different keys for different doors, you need to use different passwords for different sites. 
• Change your passwords frequently. When was the last time you changed your password for your online banking account or Facebook? It is recommended that users change passwords to sensitive accounts at least every 30 days. 
• Set strong passwords. Setting long passwords that contain letters, numbers and characters for numerous websites can be difficult to memorize. Use paraphrases like “MyBirthDate?June15,90.” It’s long, has all the letters, numbers and characters, and it’s easy to remember.

 You can check out the complete news release here.