Dashlane’s Password Health and Dark Web Monitoring tools keep your sensitive data safer than ever.
Creating a secure password is not just something to check off your to-do list, never to revisit. A company’s security needs change over time, just as a password’s strength can weaken the longer a password is in use. Likewise, secure credentials are essential for keeping sensitive data behind a wall, but if those credentials are acquired by hackers, the whole wall might as well be leveled.
With a password manager, IT admins don’t need to spend all day thinking about and updating passwords or searching for places where they may have been leaked—Dashlane’s Password Health and Dark Web Monitoring tools help with the heavy lifting. Here’s how you can utilize these features to improve your company’s passwords, monitor progress, and gain shareable insights. It’s best to think of these tools as a duo: They’re stronger when you use them together.
Dashlane calculates an employee’s Password Health Score after they’ve stored at least five passwords that they haven’t excluded from the calculation. The score is based on three factors:
The calculation gives more weight to critical accounts—those in the categories of business, finance, shopping, health, and social media.
With this tool, users and admins can gain insights about their passwords by tracking their Password Health Score. Reviewing your score:
To get the most out of this feature, there are five things you can do:
To combat poor password practices among employees, Dashlane’s Admin Console shows the Password Health Score and breakdown of each employee. It also shows an overall score for the company and how it has changed over time, all while maintaining employee privacy to build trust.
Through the console, admins can:
Dashlane’s Dark Web Monitoring, available to all individual users on a business plan, is a simple way to alert employees when their information appears on the dark web. Here’s how it works:
Researchers recently found more than 15 billion compromised credentials on the dark web from more than 100,000 breaches. And those are just the credentials available for free.
In 2019 alone, more than 7,000 reported breaches exposed 15.2 billion more records, a new all-time high. More than 5,000 of those breaches were the result of hacking. With stolen or brute-forced credentials as the leading cause of breaches, it’s clear that compromised and weak passwords create a vicious cycle.
Monitoring the dark web for data breaches that may have exposed your employees’ passwords allows you to proactively track and secure business accounts. This is especially critical if employees reuse passwords across multiple accounts, apps, and systems.
As mentioned, the Password Health Scores take a number of things into account. If your credentials are found on the dark web, your Password Health Score is lower. This also applied to passwords determined to be similar enough to compromised ones to still be at risk. Dashlane uses a metric called the Levenshtein distance to determine password similarity: A password is considered similar to another if you’ve deleted, switched, or inserted fewer than three characters. Your or your employee’s Password Health Score will only improve once the employee has addressed these flagged accounts.
Not only does Dashlane encourage strong credentials with the Password Health feature, it also keeps eyes on your credentials should they surface on the dark web. When employees log in and view their dashboard, they take an active role in company security and can measure progress as it improves.
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