The main reason to use a password manager is to create varied, strong passwords for every website and app you use—ones that you don’t have to remember for yourself. However, it’s also important that you can access your passwords from every one of your devices without difficulty.

Keeper Password Manager delivers an excellent experience across a ton of platforms and browsers. It also offers top-notch features such as robust multi-factor authentication support, extensive sharing capabilities, useful auditing tools, and full password histories. Keeper is an Editors’ Choice winner for the password manager category.

For starters, Keeper uses strong encryption methods (256-bit AES) to secure all stored login credentials and sensitive files, and it offers a wide range of multi-factor authentication (MFA) options — including Touch ID and Face ID authentication.

It also offers extra security tools like:

• Password security auditing.
• Dark web monitoring.
• Encrypted messaging.
• …and a lot more.

Keeper Password manager  Pros & Cons

Pros

• Supports 2FA, including manual secret key entry
• Full Linux GUI
• Cross platform with Windows, Mac, and Linux apps

Cons

• One of the smaller players on the consumer market
• Free edition is only a 30-day trial

Why Use a Password Manager?

Your password allows access to your accounts and sensitive information. So, you need to use strong passwords to ensure your accounts aren’t an easy target for hackers. Strong passwords require quite the mix of upper-case and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols.

They also need to be lengthy, and you shouldn’t use the same password for multiple accounts. So, if you find it challenging to remember all your strong passwords, I don’t blame you.

•  Keeper encrypts your passwords locally on your device using combined AES 256 and PBKDF2 encryption. Each separate entry is assigned a unique key. So, instead of locking your whole vault under a single key, Keeper gives every single password or file you upload a unique key for top-notch security.
•  Keeper also supports two-factor authentication or 2FA. Regardless of the method you choose, you’re required to have a Keeper password backup method. If you lose your phone or token, you don’t want to be locked out of your vault forever.
• Third-party security audits also attest to Keeper’s solid security practices. They passed a SOC 2 audit, and they’re compliant with the ISO 27001 standard and the Privacy Shield Framework designed by the US Department of Commerce and the European Commission.
•  Another security feature is called Self-Destruct. It allows you to erase all locally stored passwords.

Bottom Line

Keeper is a versatile password manager and TOPT generation tool that allows users to both store credentials and monitor the dark and clear web for evidence that they have been compromised in a data breach. It’s a versatile tool with true cross-platform capabilities.