Strengthen your password
Use a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters to make your password more robust and increase your online security.
Free online password generators such as Privacy Canada's Strong Password Generator can help you easily create a strong password.
A passphrase is better
A passphrase is like a password but longer and made up of four or more words.
It's easy to remember as a sentence or a phrase, like SunnyDayAtTheBeach, instead of short and complicated like Xy7$2k!.
A passphrase is recommended over a password.
More examples of passphrases:
A personal memory: IceCreamOnTheBeach
Your favorite song lyrics: GoodbyeYellowBrickRoad
Random words: RedFenceDragonJump
Free online passphrase generators such as Use a Passphrase can help you create a strong passphrase.
Simplify with a Password Manager
A password manager is a tool designed to help you store, generate, and manage your passwords much easier.
If you have multiple accounts, the temptation is to create a simple a password and use this same password for every account. This is a dangerous practice as it exposes some to accessing all of your accounts protected by that one simple password. The best practice is to have a unique strong password for each of your accounts.
A password manager will remember your passwords for you and quickly generates new, strong passwords so you'll never have to reuse any previous passwords. The only password you will need to remember is your master password to the password manager itself.
If you plan to use your passwords across multiple devices, browser such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer all have available built-in password managers. You may also want to consider these password managers:
1 Password (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android)
LastPass (Linux, Windows, Mac, Android)
DashLane (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android)