

While not perfect, many companies have accepted these built-in features as “secure enough.” And since browsers are constantly volunteering to save every password the user enters, it shouldn’t be surprising then if this is how your employees are keeping track of them.

It’s probably a safe bet then that most employees are using their browsers to store all of their long, complex passwords. Hopefully, you have a corporate security awareness training program and have long been discouraging the first two practices, even if some people may still do them. Storing passwords in their browser’s built-in password manager.Saving passwords in a document on their computer.Maybe you’re not sure, and if you haven’t previously provided any guidance or tools for them to use, then your average employee is probably doing one of these three things: “How do our employees store their work related logins and passwords?” You now need to ask yourself this one basic question: But, they have a lot of them: one for corporate email, one for Dropbox, one for a vendor’s ordering platform, one for your HR portal, one for AWS, and so many more for all the business services they use to do their work. Let’s assume your employees are doing the right thing and creating complex, random, and unique passwords for all work-related accounts.
