{"189581":{"#nid":"189581","#data":{"type":"news","title":"OIT Offers LastPass Password Storage Tool","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECreating passwords for everything from email to credit card accounts is a challenge. But remembering all of them \u2014 including your Georgia Tech password, which must be changed every three months \u2014 can require a Herculean effort.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat\u2019s why the Office of Information Technology (OIT) is offering a new resource for faculty and staff called \u201cLastPass.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs requirements for passwords become more complex, there\u2019s a greater possibility of poor password management habits such as writing down passwords,\u201d said Jimmy Lummis, information security policy and compliance manager for OIT. \u201cLastPass provides a means to manage the creation of very strong passwords and the ability to store those passwords in a single location, which is secure and encrypted and available to the user in any location.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOIT decided to offer the tool after a decision was made to shift Tech\u2019s password standard from eight to 11 characters beginning Jan. 31 (the result of new state and Board of Regents requirements). \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELastPass is compatible with many different types of computers and mobile devices and offers cloud synchronization among all of a user\u2019s devices without relying on a third party service such as Dropbox. There is no limit to the number of passwords that can be stored in a user\u2019s LastPass \u201cvault,\u201d which is encrypted with a LastPass master password that is required to lock and unlock the account. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe beauty of this tool is users only need to remember their LastPass password, rather than the 50 passwords that many of us have to remember to access all of our accounts,\u201d Lummis added. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo obtain a LastPass account, contact the Technology Support Center at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:support@oit.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Esupport@oit.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E. For more information about the tool, click \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/c.gatech.edu\/14DkBwq\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECreating passwords for everything from email to credit card accounts is a challenge. But remembering all of them \u2014 including your Georgia Tech password, which must be changed every three months \u2014 can require a Herculean effort. \u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Creating passwords for everything from email to credit card accounts is a challenge."}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2013-02-04 16:19:36","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:33","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-02-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-02-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"189481":{"id":"189481","type":"image","title":"LastPass","body":null,"created":"1449179848","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:57:28","changed":"1475894838","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:18","alt":"LastPass","file":{"fid":"196232","name":"lastpass.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lastpass_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lastpass_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":175177,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/lastpass_0.jpg?itok=Atq3wdvK"}}},"media_ids":["189481"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/c.gatech.edu\/14DkBwq","title":"LastPass FAQ"}],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"57691","name":"LastPass"},{"id":"9299","name":"Office of Information Technology"},{"id":"4112","name":"oit"},{"id":"57701","name":"password security. passwords"},{"id":"167055","name":"security"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:support@oit.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EOffice of Information Technology\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}