A good passphrase consisting of several words with spaces or dashes in between (like "Garage-city-park-where" or "eat cake every eighth") is stronger than most gobbledygook passwords that have lots of random characters, and passphrases offer the very meaningful advantage of being far easier to remember for real human beings.

Last week I was interviewed by CIOReview for a profile of TeamsID that will appear in an upcoming issue. In the meantime, though, I thought I'd share the full transcript of the interview. Here are their questions and my answers.

Having to let employees go can be a difficult process--regardless of the circumstances behind the dismissal or that person's decision to leave the company. However, when staff members leave the company, one of the most important things any business needs to do is remove that individual's access to company resources. For some companies, closing down a former employee's access is as simple as deactivating keycards and removing them from the personnel list, but the issue becomes more complex as IT resources become involved.

Over the past few years as we have built TeamsID, there have been a few applications and services that have been inspirations for us. Some of these applications we also used extensively to help our own development team work together.One of these "two-fers" apps that was both a design that inspired us as well as a tool that we used day to day (and continue to use) is Slack. So I'm proud to say that if you use Slack, I think you'll find some instant familiarity with TeamsID and the ways it can help you and your colleagues be more productive.

And in 2014, passwords didn't get much stronger -- number one on our list was still "123456"

"123456" Maintains the Top Spot on SplashData's Annual "Worst Passwords" List

The 2014 list of worst passwords demonstrates the importance of keeping names, simple numeric patterns, sports and swear words out of your passwords. Los Gatos, CA - January 20, 2015 - SplashData has announced its annual list of the 25 most common passwords found on the Internet - thus making them the "Worst Passwords" that will expose anybody to being hacked or having their identities stolen. In its fourth annual report, compiled from more than 3.3 million leaked passwords during the year, "123456"and "password" continue to hold the top two spots that they have held each year since the first list in 2011. Other passwords in the top 10 include "qwerty," "dragon," and "football." As in past years' lists, simple numerical passwords remain common, with nine of the top 25 passwords on the 2014 list comprised of numbers only.

And in 2013, other than the influence from the Adobe breach, the only real news in terms of user behavior change was that "password" was finally unseated as #1 by "123456". Here are the Worst Passwords of 2013:

The 2012 sequel to SplashData's initial "worst passwords" report proved that not much had changed in terms of user behavior. Here are the Worst Passwords of 2012.

You may have heard about SplashData's "Worst Passwords" lists. These are extensively researched lists of the most common passwords found on the Internet. Here are the Worst Passwords of 2011.

TeamsID today announced that it has become a Champion of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) 2015. TeamsID will be joining a growing global effort among colleges and universities, businesses, government agencies, associations, nonprofit organizations and individuals to promote online safety awareness.

Here's our very first introductory video for TeamsID. Take a look and let us know your thoughts! [embed]https://youtu.be/dxsW6SIzsNg[/embed] Get started for FREE

There are plenty of options out there for password management. But the problem was that none of the options were right for me.