Creating a secure password for your Timely account

It's important to make sure your Timely account is secure to protect your business and client data. You can do this by creating a strong password and using it for your Timely account ONLY. Here are some tips for creating a secure password.

Choose a password that is hard to guess

When creating a password, it can be tempting to use a child's birthday, or the name of your pet. Unfortunately this information is often easy to find online which means your password can be easy to guess. You should also avoid using generic or default passwords like password, password 123 etc

Make your password long

12 characters are required when setting up your Timely password. This is because long passwords are much more secure. If you're struggling to come up with a longer password, why not try using a phrase? Phrases are considered one of the most secure ways to create a password as they are extremely difficult to guess or hack. 

Examples of good phrase passwords:

• The cat sat on the mat

• My favourite drink is coffee

• Jack and the bean stalk

Use at least one capital letter and one lowercase letter

To make your password even more secure, you can scatter capital letters into your password rather than just having them at the beginning. For example:

• The Cat sAt on THE mat

Test your password strength

You can test out your password to see how long it would take for a computer to crack your password using How Secure Is My Password? - this tool gives you an idea of how many years it would take to crack your password. 

Remember though, that this tool doesn't know what dates are relevant to you, so tip one still applies! Try to not use meaningful dates, pet or children's names etc. 

Use a password manager

Password managers are the best way to keep your passwords secure. Lastpass and Dashlane are two commonly used password managers that are easy to use on both desktop and mobile devices. You can install extensions to your web browser as well to automatically fill in your passwords for you. 

The other helpful aspect of password managers is that most include a password generator. These generate random passwords that are very hard to crack and automatically save them for future use with that particular website and username.