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What do I need to know about choosing my Master Password? Your Master Password is the password that you are prompted to create when you initially sign up for your LastPass account. Whenever you log in to LastPass, you need your email address and Master Password to access your account. It is important that you create a very strong Master Password that you will not forget.  Don’t share your master password with anyone, ever! It needs to be long and unique to protect you from brute-force attacks and to ensure that a breach at another website won’t affect your LastPass account. Ensure

How do I log on to a website using LastPass? In your web browser, navigate to your desired website. If your username and password are already filled in, you are ready to log on to the website. If they are not, click the LastPass Field icon that appears beside your username or password.  Note: The number displayed within the icon will depend on the number of credential sets you have stored in LastPass for the website you are visiting. LastPass presents one or more website passwords for you to choose from. Click on your desired set of login credentials. Once LastPass has filled in your

How do I log on and set my Master Password? Assuming you are part of a LastPass Teams or Enterprise organisation, you will receive an email from your LastPass admin, welcoming you to LastPass. Sanity-check that the email really is from LastPass, and refers to the correct Team/Enterprise organisation.  If you are happy that this is a legitimate email then click Activate LastPass and it will open in your browser Now you will need to create a Master Password by typing into the New Master Password field. Your new Master Password must meet the requirements specified, and should also have the

How do I install LastPass on my PC? Installing the LastPass for Applications on Windows If your organisation has not already installed LastPass for you, you can download the Universal Installer from the LastPass downloads page. If you have sufficient permissions for your Windows account, you can continue with the installation process on Windows as follows: Select your desired language from the drop-down menu. Check the box(es) of the web browser(s) for which you’d like to enable the LastPass toolbar, then click Install LastPass. When prompted, you can click Import to import passwords located on your computer. Otherwise, you can click No Thanks and choose to import later. Once

Why can’t we just use the browser’s own password storage? All major browsers, as well as the Apple and (most) Android operating systems, offer to save passwords for you.  Some even offer to create random ones for you, and can tell you when you are re-using the same password in multiple locations. We don’t comment on which of those solutions is the most or least secure. We also don’t comment on which have the best and worse features. It is worth noting however that all of those solutions are not configured or controlled centrally by your organisation, and are not available everywhere.

Why do we need LastPass? Most people do not have good password and secrets management habits. Here are some bad habits (which ones do you recognise?): Using passwords that you can remember easily Using short passwords Using passwords that are derived from simply words or names Using passwords that are easy to type Using the same password for different web sites, services and/or applications Writing your password(s) down somewhere that others can easily find Sending passwords in emails Sending passwords together with the matching username Allowing multiple people to share the same account (username-password combination) Best practice for passwords includes things like the

What is LastPass? LastPass is a password and secrets management tool – it helps you to follow best practice with passwords and other secrets, and it should also make life a LOT easier for you once you have it up and running. Its purpose is to store your passwords somewhere that only you can access, and it makes them available to you in your browser, on your smartphones and tablets, and just about anywhere else you might need them. LastPass also has other important features that help you to follow best practice, including things like: Generating long, random (aka “complex”) passwords for you Filling in