

With the software, enterprises can save time by simplifying employee password management while granting admins actionable oversight from advanced reporting to over 100 customizable security policies. There’s in-memory password protection to prevent them being revealed even if Windows caches the KeePass process to disk and security-enhanced password edit controls to prevent third-party edit control spies working – passwords entered in those controls aren’t left visible in the process memory of KeePass.LastPass provides a password and identity management solution that is simple to manage, effortless and convenient to use. You can use a double-authentication process of a key disk and a password in order to access the database if you want even tighter security. You get a choice of using either AES or Twofish, both with 256-bit key sizes, and this encrypts the entire database, so your usernames, notes and personal information are hidden as well. Being open source, it’s totally free, yet without sacrificing power. When it comes down to weighing features against price, there can only be one winner in the budget sector: KeePass Password Safe. Thankfully, you can use a strong password instead.


The ability to unlock the password database by using any supported USB or Bluetooth device as an authorisation dongle, without a master password requirement, adds to the risk of compromise, though. Typical of next-generation password-management applications, it integrates with both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, automatically logs into sites and services, handles password backup and secure password generation. Although passwords are safer at 128-bit than in plain text, if you’re investing in specialist software you may as well go for the best security possible.įor a couple of pounds more, Sticky Password offers plenty of encryption choices as standard, including Twofish, Ghost, Sapphire II and FROG. These include AES 128-bit encryption rather than 256-bit. TK8 Safe is at the budget end of the password-management market, which means sacrifices are made.
