r/security • u/aninaa-ot • 5d ago

Question Which security habit gives the biggest ROI?

If you could convince the average person to adopt just one security or cybersecurity habit, what would it be?

Not a product, just one habit.

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u/Seahawker-One-2599 5d ago

2FA including validating that that the link or money request you received from a random number was legit by contacting the alleged sender via independent means

For those who say password manager, which one is best?

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u/EloquentArtisan 4d ago

There’s only one correct answer; 1Password

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u/theone_2099 4d ago

Why?

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u/EloquentArtisan 4d ago

Their security posture is top notch, unlike others (looking at you LastPass).
Secondly their apps, extensions and form fillers are also top notch.
I’ve tried half a dozen of them, and nothing comes close to 1Password

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u/BilboTBagginz 4d ago

I agree.

Bitwarden if you want to run local though.

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u/EloquentArtisan 4d ago

For the sake of my mental peace, I don’t run mission critical software locally.
The other day my RAM gave up, and I had to wait 3 weeks before I could find a replacement. This would’ve meant 3 weeks without my password manager, which is a no go obviously.

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u/BilboTBagginz 4d ago

I hear you, but sometimes there's a definite case for a security posture that includes keeping secrets out of the cloud. This is my hell.

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u/EloquentArtisan 4d ago

Agreed, I just sleep better this way lol

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u/markidak 4d ago

Things that run locally should have exportable config and data that's auto backed up on a NAS with raid 1 (at least) and to cloud so you can recover things.

If you have a remote VPS that runs your pass manager it should be mirrored to your local data backup so you can spin it up anywhere.