Jan. 17th, 2022 – Final Update to the LastPass Breach Prior Blog Article:  LastPass Breach Blog Article and Update 2 (12-24-2022) “Parachute manufacturers have a low tolerance for risk, right?”  Bradley Gross said to a group discussion CyberHoot was participating on recently relating to the LastPass breach.  “That doesn’t stop them from manufacturing parachutes, now does it?”  If you go ski diving, you have a second chute as a backup, you train diligently on emergency procedures, and you fold your own chute; you do these things to ensure the best possible chance of success, because failure is, well, deadly.  This analogy can be applied to Password Managers.  They are your parachute protecting your digital identity.  When failures occur, they can be devastating, but you must have your chute.  In the online connected Internet we live in and on today, you must have and use a Password Manager.  However, in a critical failure like the LastPass breach, we have an opportunity to step back and evaluate our criteria for how we choose a password management vendor and how we operate the solution.  We must look at our implementation of our chosen password management solution to ensure it is ‘packed correctly’.  We need to train for emergency situations like this one (no software ever written is perfect).

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