Passwords are the primary way that most users secure accounts, whether they are banking, sharing information among friends or simply setting up an email account. As a result, the security of your online information is directly related to the strength of your password. Password security can be improved in two ways: 1) the strength of the password itself and 2) the frequency with which the password is changed.
Password Selection
Choosing a password that is both memorable and secure can be challenging. Stay away from using commonly known things about you—your pet’s name, your birthday, the name of a spouse or child. Length is important but security can often be significantly improved if within that length are a series of characters—uppercase, lowercase and numbers or special characters such as & or $.
Password “Freshness”
Though it is often inconvenient, a good practice is to refresh your passwords on a regular basis. The variability adds another layer of complexity to your password beyond the characters in the word itself. While sequencing is tempting (password1 changed to password2), a better choice is often to vary the word in its entirety.
Often users hold back from improving their current password or maintaining password freshness, because it can be inconvenient to find out how to make the changes. So, for reference, here is a step-by-step guide to password changes for some of Network Solutions’ key services:
Network Solutions Account Manager
In order to change the password for your account manager, go to https://www.networksolutions.com/manage-it/index.jsp and log in with your current credentials and follow the steps below:
1) On the Account Manager Homepage, go to the section marked Account Information and select the “Edit” link to the right.
2) The “Edit” link will take you to the account settings page. Select “user profile” from the top navigation.
3) The top section of that page has the title “user ID and password”. Click on the blue button that says “edit user ID/password.
4) Make your changes and hit the “save” button at the bottom of the screen.
5) You will see a message that your save has been successful.
Hosting FTP Password
To update your FTP password, go to your Network Solutions Account Manager [https://www.networksolutions.com/manage-it/index.jsp] and follow the steps below:
1) Log into Account Manager with your user ID and password.
2) Look for the “My Hosting Packages” portion of Account Manager home page.
3) Click on the link that says “user/pwd”.
4) If you have multiple hosting packages, you may be prompted to select which package you would like to manage; single package owners will not see this prompt.
5) You will be directed to the FTP control panel. You will see a table that shows the FTP user accounts. Select the link that says “change”.
6) Complete the “FTP password” field and the “confirm password field”. You should enter into these fields the new FTP password that you have selected and hit “OK”. Please note that your new password must be 6-16 characters and contain at least 1 uppercase letter, at least 1 lowercase letter and number or special character (! @ # $ % ^ & *).
7) If your change was successful, you will see a confirmation message on the screen.
Email Password
To update your email password, go to your Network Solutions Account Manager [https://www.networksolutions.com/manage-it/index.jsp] and follow the steps below:
1) Log into your account.
2) Under the email product section. Select the appropriate mailbox under the drop down box and click “go”.
3) On the Email details page, scroll down the page to the “Manage Email Name and Password” section.
4) Change your password. Be sure to follow the password requirements: enter a password which is 8-14 characters and contains 1 letter and number or special character (! @ # $ % ^ & *).
5) The success screen lets you know your password has been updated.
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