Iglu.com is the UK’s largest independent agent of ski holidays and cruises. They have over 350 staff members working across Wimbledon and Portsmouth, and routinely deliver exceptional holiday experiences for their customers. Matthew Compton, Head of IT Operations at
Iglu.com, recognized how a password management tool can play an instrumental role in protecting their organization against malicious malware attacks, phishing emails, and hacking attempts. They invested in LastPass to strengthen their team’s cyber resilience and bolster password hygiene.
Here are three steps to safety using LastPass that can guard your organization against cybercrime.
Improve password hygiene
Passwords are the keys to your accounts. For bad actors, they remain a gateway to your digital life, including sensitive personal information, money, and undisclosed business data. By exploiting cybersecurity weaknesses through social engineering, machine learning, and processing power, hackers attempt to impersonate you to gain access to your personal data. To prevent your credentials from being compromised, it’s key you create strong passwords to protect each of your accounts.
With the LastPass Password Generator, you eliminate the risk of human-error. Users or admins can set password generation requirements – password character length and characters used, for example – and let LastPass handle the rest. Generating a random password with numbers, symbols, and uppercase and lowercase letters has never been easier.
Matthew Compton from Iglu.com comments: “With LastPass, there’s no excuse for poor password hygiene at any time and place, it supports the Iglu.com team to work safely at all times.”
Invest in your cybersecurity infrastructure
The easiest way to support the conversation on cybersecurity threats and implement achievable outcomes instantly, is by investing in your cybersecurity infrastructure and embedding technology solutions to aid employees. Mandatory cybersecurity training educates the team on what to look for and simulated phishing programs can give them a manageable expectation of industry threats and evaluate the level of risk at your organization. A password management tool can aid in educating them on password hygiene and encourage staff to store credentials safely. Through offering an easy-to-use tool like LastPass with enhanced integration capabilities, individuals can seamlessly capture, generate, and store credentials without difficulty.
At Iglu.com, maintaining a secure infrastructure was key to their objectives, and to comply with industry standards, they sought Centre of Internet Security accreditation. LastPass enabled them to demonstrate their commitment to maintaining good password hygiene, a key criterion amongst CIS’s 17 modules.
With LastPass Business, the Iglu.com team also receive LastPass’ Families as a Benefit (FAAB), which provides a complementary Families account for all employees to ensure users and spouses, parents, friends — whoever they call family — can foster good password hygiene in their personal lives. Matthew Compton from Iglu.com adds: “With LastPass FAAB, it’s a great value-add that we’re able to offer our team to keep them safe outside at work.”
Close the security gap
To remain vigilant against cybercrime, it’s key that you identify any vulnerabilities and address them immediately. With LastPass, you’re able to gain visibility across your entire team’s password hygiene, from dashboards that track overall security scores to average password strength. This allows you to drill down into your employee’s password behavior and prompt for necessary changes.
LastPass also provides Dark-Web Monitoring, which monitors your email addresses continuously within a database of breached credentials and immediately alerts you via email if they have been compromised. If these accounts were breached, hackers could have access to your valuable data and potentially steal your identity.
With LastPass, you can instantly update your account with a brand-new robust credential to mitigate any hacks. Additionally, by creating unique credentials for each account and limiting password reuse across the business, you’re able to further minimize the impact of a breached account.
Matthew Compton from Iglu.com notes: “As a growing business, we needed a single source of truth to help us manage our credentials. I wanted something that gave me valuable administrative insight but was also super easy to use, which is why we chose LastPass.”
