The Final Guide You Need: A Beginner’s Handbook to Secure Your Online World

A short and actionable guide on how to stay safe online.

The idea behind Better Human is to help you to become an improved version of yourself. Many of us spend much time online and use various digital services. Unfortunately, many people do not understand how to keep themselves safe. This article will cover the essential things you should implement today If you haven’t yet. It is not for tech experts or people who need higher security or privacy online. It is for everyone who uses digital services and products.

Make sure you are using strong and unique passwords.

Unfortunately, most services and apps will use passwords to protect your data. Cybercriminals’ methods have been refined over the last ten years, and we must rethink how we pick passwords. Complexity does not make a password necessarily more robust, but length does. So the password goal-blue-hello-mug-sheep-tiger-shrimp-unicorn-taco-party will be harder to break than %sk!d/@3df. It is also way easier to type. Short-length passwords are relatively easy to break, so the idea is to create lengthier ones for added security and make them less predictable. A good rule of thumb is:

• Your password should be at least 20 characters long.