From work to school, shopping to socializing, most of our day-to-day routines went entirely virtual over the past year. Now, with many companies fully embracing remote work, the trend isn’t slowing down. Professional and personal lives are melding together more than ever. Keeping company data safe means adopting cyber-aware habits across business and personal accounts alike, especially when employees increasingly access work data from personal devices.
Facilitating better password hygiene at work and home is an easy way to protect your business from cyber threats. With a purchase of LastPass Business, you can now provide a security perk to your workforce with LastPass Families as a Benefit, officially launching July 2021. LastPass Families as a Benefit enables your employees – and their families – to live and work securely, from anywhere.
Employees often unknowingly put the company at risk with poor personal password behaviors. It might be because of password reuse across work and personal accounts or weak passwords that give attackers a foothold on a device with company data. Whatever the reason, poor password hygiene is equally damaging at home and work. Plus, employees may not realize how identity theft and cyber threats can impact them and their families outside of work. LastPass Families as a Benefit helps them take steps to keep their family safe and holistically protect their digital life.
LastPass Families as a Benefit offers employees and every member of their family a convenient, easy-to-use password manager. With Families as a Benefit, your employees will receive a personal LastPass account, plus five additional licenses to share with family or friends.
By setting up their own personal LastPass account, each family member has a safe place to store all of their most sensitive credentials. Family members can share any logins that more than one person needs to access, while all other passwords remain separate and private.
"The new LastPass Business is a game changer, especially Families as a Benefit,” says Travis Pate, Systems Admin at WSECU. “It's awesome because a lot of families have shared accounts, so being able to share a password with my wife or a family member is significant. Families as a benefit makes it a lot easier for everyone to take advantage of the security features LastPass offers."
With LastPass Families, your employee can:
- Invite up to 5 additional family members or friends to join their LastPass Families account, granting each person their own unique LastPass account where they can store personal passwords and specify those meant for sharing with others, while keeping the rest private.
- Store and protect their entire family’s passwords across all devices.
- Share passwords with one-to-one or one-to-many sharing capabilities, with unlimited shared folders.
- Increase password hygiene by using the Security Dashboard to clearly see what passwords need updating based on password score.
- Receive alerts when their family’s data is compromised through 24/7 dark web monitoring.
- Create a digital contingency plan for their family’s most important digital assets.
