Well, I don’t know if you missed my content but I have been really busy lately with other things (majorly, redesigning this website, then almost goofing it up, then finally done!). Anyway, without wasting your next 2-5 minutes that you will be here, let me just start!
Yep! I use a password manager
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MYKI is a Password Manager and 2FA Authenticator designed with privacy in mind. MYKI takes care of remembering your passwords, auto-filling them in the browser and logging you in with a click, creating unique and complex passwords for each of your accounts as well as handling your two-factor authentication tokens making it your own. To use Myki when travelling, a passenger holds the card against a Myki reader (called 'touching on' or 'touching off'). Passengers touch on at the start of a trip and (except for a tram trip within Zone 1 8 ) touch off at the end of the trip, at which point the appropriate fare is assessed and deducted from the stored Myki money value on the.
I’ve heard many times about these things that you shouldn’t be using one, as the app-makers are anyway watching you in spite of their so many declarations that they don’t, you should instead write them in some book or paper and keep it super-secure and indeed try to remember the most secure and confidential ones and noting them down anywhere!
My only answer to the above guidance is “I can’t be any of those persons ‘absolutely’, hence I choose the mid-way” (gray areas as they say in so many management books). Here is my approach to passwords:
- I remember password which I frequently use and which I consider to be the most secure
- I am too lazy to write down passwords on paper and even keep it safe and referring them back everytime when needed for websites I seldom / not so frequently visit.
- Also, I am too paranoid to use a cloud-based password manager.
When I came across MYKI (which was only a few months back), I was really pleased to realise as to how my void of those requirements was fulfilled!
Secure
Yes, even this app too claims it doesn’t store any data (except the mobile no. which is used “to allow you to restore your data to a new device, to be able to send you notifications and to enable credential sharing between users.” – These are MYKI’s words and not mine and for that ‘sharing’ part you have a feature in-app to do so). The difference here is that MYKI shows it right on your face that no data is saved on the cloud because this app does not have any web-based logins. The only limited ways you can use it is, by an app on your phone or your PC or through it’s browser extension.
The way how MYKI works is through locally installed apps only; you want to use it on another device simultaneously you need to authorize it through the one where you have this app installed on; which is what no app, as far as I know, offers. Hence, I have concluded to consider it as secure! Below are some screens to add a device:
Features
Oh, 2FAs (TOTPs) too can be added here!
If you are the person who prefers the ‘all in one’ approach to things, then you can add your 2FA tokens too here. Well, I have an entire write up on 2FAs and an app that handles it well! I am not the person who will use 2FA with my password manager because I don’t want any single point of failures (never keep all fruits in one basket). So I always use authy for it!
Apart from passwords and 2FAs you can even add other things such as other form filling related details (eg: address), secure notes, ID cards and even payment cards (again I am not very much comfortable storing card information not only here but anywhere, infact!)
Autofill + Authorisation for logins
While Autofill is a given in any password manager these days, MYKI even offers authorised logins while using the app / extension on the PC.
Example: You want to login to Twitter on your PC and have saved the password in MYKI (& even have the browser extension)
- While logging in on twitter.com, you will get a popup to use autofill using MYKI. Tap it
- You will get a notification on your phone to authorize your sign in (if you use MYKI as a 2FA authenticator too then it will even auto-fill that for you!)
- The password will be auto-filled and I can now simply login
Backup prompts (annoying but good in a way)
Auto-backups happen only when MYKI is installed on your PC, not on your phone (which is a bummer and I will cover it again in the end along with some other things that bug me!); on your phone you will often (okay, each time you open the app) get backup prompts to backup your passwords on your phone (or your PC via QR code scanning).
Backup files are completely encrypted (open that file in a text editor and tell me if you understand anything there). Additionally below is my paranoid’y approach to backup:
- Back it up on my phone
- Create a zip file of that backup
- Password protect that zip file
- Saving a copy of that zip file on my local PC
- Doing the above activity everytime when I add any password to MYKI
While those prompts are really annoying, I have pretty much convinced myself to treat as useful reminders – exactly what it intends to be!
Others
Enabling / Disabling screenshots
Pretty self-explanatory, but I am glad it’s there! (specially helped when writing this article!)
Sharing passwords
The people sharing their Netflix subscription with their family and friends will find this handy.
MYKI users can share passwords among themselves, so whenever the initiator changes the password, it gets shared with peers if enabled! (pretty neat!)
Shared passwords appear in the sharing center.
Password Generator
No password manager is complete without a password generator and MYKI has it. So are you too lazy to think of a new password you want to set? or are out of ideas or combinations to think of one? The password generator will generate a totally random password for you and you can even set criteria such as the length, conditions (uppercase, lowercase, characters, alphanumeric, etc.), etc and it will display you strings of characters in real-time. Once decided, you just need to copy it!
Pro features (trust me you can skip these!)
While MYKI is completely free to use it offers some additional features such as ‘Tags’, making profiles, custom images for each password. And even custom fields while setting passwords (such as security questions can be added). I am completely of the view that none of these are features one would even require. Seriously you can ignore the Pro bundle (by the way it costs ₹890 ($12)
Design
The design is very straight forward – relevant bottom bars, snappy interface, reliable autofill (I’ve tried Lastpass’s autofill on android, it rarely worked ☹), etc. Also a pro-tip, Tap on the bottom bar in the passwords section again and again and you can cycle through the different tabs
However, there are few things which indeed bug me and they aren’t only the design:
- The settings section needs to be improved. Open it and there are no ‘settings’, only the device info! Okay, Scroll down till the end and you will find two options – Enabling/Disabling screenshots and Delete Account.
By nature, yes they need to be at the end, not easily accessible, but not that is when you even have other settings to offer. There are freaking only 2 of these options and IMO displaying Device Info under this section is by no means a good sign of ‘good usability’. If MYKI team anyway happens to read it, please reconsider tweaking it! 🙁 - Cross-platform inconsistencies: This is really a thing, I just don’t understand why there are noticeable UI differences between the android and the iOS counterpart?
Have a look for yourself – The iOS app has a bit modified bottom bar (with a very prominent ‘Add’ button in the middle). While the android app is very basic.
Also, the iOS app even offers showing recently used passwords for quick access and some other details too and there more section is more clean and even has a search option to search for settings (which are entirely missing in android) - No light theme 🙁
The default dark theme is meant to be used in the nights. - I am nitpicking now but I have even highlighted this on Twitter, while MYKI’s twitter account usually responds to user queries, they did not respond to it…
- I already mentioned it before, while there is an auto-backup functionality on app PC, the same is not offered on mobile devices for reasons unknown!
Finally! some tips from me…
While the app is secure, in order to develop a more secure environment for your passwords in general, here are things that I would suggest:
- You can open the app using your on-device biometrics and by even a custom PIN. I would really suggest avoiding biometrics because If someone happens to add his/her biometrics on your device then even that person will now be able to access the app compromising security. Hence, using a custom PIN will greatly avoid this single point of failure!
- Would suggest my approach to backup passwords
- Avoid adding (or even writing down) passwords which in your opinion are of the most confidential nature and even those which might cause a single point of failure (for example: a Google/Microsoft account password compromise can leave you out of your own emails, contacts, calendars, activity data, files, etc.)
- Wherever possible use 2-Factor Authentication (can refer my article on it here)
One last thing I would like to point out. All the Cyber Attacks that happen, all of them have only 1 single point of failure – Human Negligence & Lack of Awareness. So as RBI says, “Jaankaar Baniye, Satark Rahiye!”(Stay Informed, Stay Alert!)
Here are the download links for MYKI (Free; IAPs-completely useless thoughIMO)
And here’s what I say every time…
“stay aware, stay appy!”
Let me know down in the comments section, your thoughts on passwords management!
We founded MYKI five years ago because we believed that there was a better way to tackle identity and access management. So we started with password & 2FA management.
At the time, cloud-based password managers were leading the way in redefining our experience with passwords, while on-premise solutions were lagging behind due to how inconvenient they were by comparison, despite being much more secure. Regardless, this made it easy for users who weren’t necessarily the most cybersecurity-conscious to overlook the faults of cloud-based solutions, specifically how insecure they actually are.
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When we launched MYKI, our goal was to introduce a cybersecurity solution that could marry the security of on-premise solutions with the convenience of cloud-based ones.
Sophos pricing. Considering that security and convenience are both equally important for the success of a Managed Service Provider, our positioning and value proposition made for a good fit in that particular space. MSPs have a duty to protect their clients (and themselves), but they also need to figure out how best to do that without getting in the way of productivity.
It became clear to us that we needed to shift our company strategy to become MSP-first. Accordingly, we set about introducing all-new MSP-specific features and functionalities to our password & 2FA management solution and brought on a team of experts in the space who could help us realize our vision within the channel.
Over the past two years, we’ve had thousands of discussions with our partners, established distribution deals in different regions, revamped the product roadmap to better cater to the needs of our partners, and launched our Partner Knowledge Hub, essentially building our end-to-end go-to-market strategy around MSPs and their clients.
While scaling our password & 2FA management offering, we were always on the lookout for our partners’ needs, pain points, and from our perspective, our next opportunity.
One area of concern that kept popping up over and over again was browsers, specifically the negligent behavior of users within browsers.
The browser is home to many of the most common and sophisticated online threats. Malicious ads, phony login forms, bogus domains, disguised malware waiting to be downloaded, the list goes on.
The pandemic only added fuel to the fire, with the shift to remote work and mass adoption of remote collaboration tools essentially forcing users to live and work in their browsers. In 2020, the number of cyberattacks increased by 300% with 88% of those breaches happening in web browsers.
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While existing solutions like email analysis solutions, DNS protection solutions, proxy-based protection solutions, and others addressed some of the threats listed above, they did so in a fragmented manner and at the periphery of the browser.
It became apparent that this battle would have to be fought inside the browsers.
Enter GUARD
GUARD is an MSP-tailored enterprise browser security solution embedded in the browser as an extension. It uses a combination of machine learning and best practices to strengthen the browser against internal and external threats.
At its core, what GUARD does is conduct real-time multi-channel analysis on the contents of web pages and the activity of users in order to detect and block actions that could lead to a data breach.
Collected inputs are fed into different types of models — some based on heuristics and others that use machine learning — which analyze the streams and keep a continuous trust score for every web page visited by the user. The analysis that GUARD conducts occurs locally, at the edge, in order to preserve user privacy and keep latency in the millisecond range.
How can MSPs use it?
GUARD is multi-tenant and can be fully deployed to clients and managed by IT managers.
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Through the management console, IT managers can apply policies to clients at scale with the click-of-a-button.
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They can also monitor the results in real-time through customizable modular reporting dashboards.
As for MSP clients, GUARD will improve their browsing experience through three key verticals:
- Cleaning up the way they see the web by removing malware, malicious pop-ups, and trackers that degrade privacy and browsing experience.
- Protecting against online threats by blocking phishing attacks, malicious sites, and scams that lead to data breaches and identity theft.
- Safeguarding private information by alerting users whenever their personal data leaks publicly and providing embedded best-practice security awareness training.
To learn more about GUARD, download the product brief or watch the product launch webinar.
How can you get started?
Over the next couple of weeks, we will be gradually onboarding MSPs to GUARD. If you’d like to gain early access to the product, sign up here and one of our channel partners will be in touch soon.
We will be rolling out the solution in batches in order to ensure that all of our partners receive a tailored onboarding experience, as well as to create a clear deployment and training plan for their teams and customers, beyond the initial setup.
What’s next for MYKI?
The introduction of GUARD to our product line propels us one step closer towards what we ultimately aim to achieve at MYKI, and that is equipping MSPs with a robust arsenal of solutions to efficiently fight any and all cyber threats while they continue to grow their businesses.
That being said, developing and launching MSP tools is only half of the MYKI ambition. We also aim to continue developing our sales and marketing engine for MSPs to tap into in order to raise awareness on cybersecurity, as well as to help accelerate seamless product adoption both internally and among their clients.
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In parallel, we also expect to introduce multiple types of partnerships with MSP vendors in the coming year, with the goal of providing our partners with an integrated and unified experience when it comes to introducing and scaling MYKI solutions into their ecosystem.
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We are excited for what’s next and are confident that our laser-focus and dedication to Managed Service Providers will further reinforce the existing relationships we’ve built with partners and vendors as well as propel us further towards our next chapter.