If you’re already a user of LastPass, then you’ll know that it’s a
cloud service which has plugins for all major web browsers — Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera. The benefits of LastPass
over your browser’s traditional password manager is that it’s available
wherever you have Internet, and it doesn’t use any local storage so they can’t
be sniffed off of your hard drive. It can also do plenty more, such as automatically
recognize when you entered in a password, help generate a secure password,
autocomplete or even autologin for you, add notes, and plenty more.
However, if there’s so much you can do with it in its free
version, what could possibly exist in the Premium version? Good question! With
LastPass Premium, you get all the same great features, but now on all your
mobile devices as well. In case you’re worried that your phone or favorite
browser might not be supported, don’t.
LastPass Premium supports iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone,
Windows Mobile, Dolphin
Browser, Firefox
Mobile, Symbian S60, and WebOS.
For all of you busy people who depend on your smartphones to stay in touch and
get things done, LastPass Premium is more than likely to support your handset.
Don’t forget that these aren’t limited to just phones, but devices in general
that run any of those operating systems or browsers.
Thankfully mobile support isn’t the only additional feature
in LastPass Premium. You can also get “IE Anywhere” which lets you access
LastPass in Internet Explorer without the need for a plugin. The free version
of LastPass allows Google
Authenticator to be used as a multifactor authentication method, but
LastPass Premium allows the use of “LastPass Sesame” (Windows only) which turns
your USB flash drive into a multifactor authentication tool. If you have a
YubiKey, you can use that as well. If you’re paranoid, you can use all three as
you’re not limited to just choosing one.
With three outside sources of authentication needed (when
set up) along with a killer master password, there’s no way anyone but you is
getting to those passwords. Last but not least, LastPass guarantees that you
won’t get any advertisements from them, and you’ll also get priority support
with the Premium package.
by Danny Stieben
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