Sep 14, 2014

Free Password Manager: Norton's Identity Safe

Password managers come in many form and almost all the browsers offer password managers. They store the encrypted password in the local profile. But there is always a risk where your data can be used by someone else.

One of the best solution to store your password is offered by reliable Norton. Norton offers free identity safe.  Download Norton's identity safe and install on your system.

Download Norton Identity Safe and run the file to install the application. Once finished you are ready to use the identity Safe. If you are using another password manager, you can generate a  '.csv' file and import all the passwords in Norton's identity safe.

On the login screen, enter your email, password and hint to recover your vault password.

you are now ready to use Norton Identity Safe.
Click on 'New Logim' to create new login details. Provide  the title and Tags. tags are useful when you want to categorize your logins. Provide the login URL, username and password and click Save.

Select  'Require vault password' only when you want to enter your master password. Does it defeat the purpose? Not really, you just have to remember the password for your vault and no one else could automatically sign in to your account without your vault password.

Password Manager

You are done! create as many passwords as you want.
Identity safe not only saves your password but you can launch URL from it and it will automatically log you in. Simply click on the arrow and URL is launched with your automatic login.

Identity Safe login

If you want to view what your password is, simply click on the 'eye' icon and it will display the password. Color of the dots indicate the strength of the password. If you want to copy the password, click on  the plus icon positioned on notepad. This will copy your passcoe on the cliboard

Although, Internet explorer will show the toolbar for the Norton's vault, you will have to download the Norton's Toolbar extension from the chrome web-store for Google Chrome.

What else can you do with Norton Identity Safe?
•Logins: Allows to store your login credentials such as url, user name and password

•Address: You can save personal information, such as name, date of birth, postal addresses, email addresses and phone numbers of your friends on the Addresses tab.

•New Payment: You can save your financial information such as credit card information, and bank account information on the Wallet tab.

•Note: You can store important text that you need as a reference on the Notes tab.

Norton identity safe optiions

Start using Norton's identity safe and you will never ever have to remember all those passwords again.