Today I have the honour of introducing the most powerful and capable 1Password ever. Wrapped in a gorgeous new design and blazingly fast, 1Password 8 is our love letter to Mac users everywhere. 💌

It’s a tough time for small business owners and their employees. Surging operational costs and supply chain issues are colliding with a rate of inflation that’s limiting how much consumers are willing and able to spend. And as the pandemic continues, there could be more legal and economic hurdles on the way. Startups and other small businesses are fighting to keep their doors open, or to open them in the first place.

In case of emergency – that is, forgetting your login for 1Password, or someone else needing to get in – the 1Password Emergency Kit can truly save the day. This short and sweet document keeps all the necessary details for getting into your account in one place. But you shouldn’t need to break glass to retrieve it (which is a huge pain to clean up, not to mention dangerous). Here’s how to keep your Emergency Kit both safe and accessible.

1Password for SSH was shared with the world last month. I have been using it since it was available for internal beta. I knew it would improve my endpoint security. I didn’t expect it to change the way I generated, stored and used SSH keys the way I work.

While 1Password is usually there to autofill your passwords, sometimes you still have to manually type them in.

Passwords are the first line of defence for protecting your devices and systems against improper access and malicious actors. They are used across almost all digital systems including software, cloud and infrastructure. Therefore implementing effective password management is one of the simplest ways of improving your cyber defences. And the best part? It costs next to nothing to have in place.

Michael Fey, VP of Engineering at 1Password, recently interviewed Jeremiah Peschka, staff software developer at Stack Overflow, on our Random But Memorable podcast.