--- title: Netgain Healthcare IT Blog | password security description: password security | The Netgain Healthcare IT blog reaches readers interested in the importance of healthcare IT, cloud computing, and business technology solutions. --- Netgain Healthcare IT Blog | password security - [About Us](http://netgainhosting.com/about-us) - [Why Netgain](http://netgainhosting.com/why-netgain/) - [Who We Serve](http://netgainhosting.com/who-we-serve/) - [Blog](https://blog.netgainhosting.com/) - [![](http://netgainhosting.com/wp-content/themes/chat.png)Support](http://netgainhosting.com/support/) - [![](http://netgainhosting.com/wp-content/themes/phone.png)Contact Us](http://netgainhosting.com/contact/) # Netgain [![Secure and specialized IT](https://netgainhosting.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/netgain-logo-for-CW.png)](http://netgainhosting.com/) Navigation - [Cloud Services](http://netgainhosting.com/cloud-services/) - [On-Site services](http://netgainhosting.com/on-site-services/) - [Professional Services](http://netgainhosting.com/professional-services/) - [Products](http://netgainhosting.com/products/) ## [Are You Using a Password Manager?](https://blog.netgainhosting.com/are-you-using-a-password-manager) Posted by [Charles Killmer - Netgain’s Security Officer](https://blog.netgainhosting.com/author/charles-killmer-netgains-security-officer) on Oct 26, 2016 10:49:49 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.netgainhosting.com/hubfs/social-suggested-images/passwordmanager-1.png)](https://blog.netgainhosting.com/are-you-using-a-password-manager) How many passwords do you have? They have become essential for many websites that we login to, change often and can be hard to keep straight. Although passwords can feel like an inconvenience, they’re critical to protecting your personal information, and the security of your patients’ ePHI. 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Winter things are packed away, birds start building nests, and the deep greens of nature appear. Spring is a season of refreshing, whether a person, a bird, or nature. Though it is often not something we consider to be a part of spring-cleaning, an important aspect of our lives that needs to freshen up is our computing environment. Here we have provided a list of some critical items to put on your spring cleaning list. Doing so is a fantastic way to help you and your organization remain safe and secure. 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Chances are we even created accounts on now long-forgotten websites. And, like many other people we used the same, or only a few different usernames and passwords. And worse yet, we may have used the same login credentials as we use at our place of work. That is a problem—others can gather our credentials from less protected sites to gain access to our sensitive healthcare data. It happens all the time. Exploiting human behavior to defeat security safeguards remains the leading cause of breach.   [Read More](https://blog.netgainhosting.com/website-passwords-can-give-easy-access-to-ephi) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.netgainhosting.com/website-passwords-can-give-easy-access-to-ephi#comments-listing) Topics: [Password best practices](https://blog.netgainhosting.com/topic/password-best-practices), [password security](https://blog.netgainhosting.com/topic/password-security) ## [3 Best Practices To Follow For Better Password Security](https://blog.netgainhosting.com/3-best-practices-to-follow-for-better-password-security) Posted by [Charles Killmer - Netgain’s Security Officer](https://blog.netgainhosting.com/author/charles-killmer-netgains-security-officer) on Sep 2, 2014 2:03:00 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.netgainhosting.com/hs-fs/hub/355362/file-1550746571.jpg)](https://blog.netgainhosting.com/3-best-practices-to-follow-for-better-password-security) I hate passwords.  They are complex, should be unique for every website or service, and I have to change them every 90 days.  What is the point?  "My accounts have never been compromised." (That I know of.) 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