For better or worse, we live in an age of passwords.

And with the increasing sophistication of just about everything (banking, renting movies, buying corduroys, etc.) these passwords must protect ever more important information.

Insurance agents, you have more than your own personal information to worry about—you’ve got clients who depend on you to protect their vital data.

Passwords are important, needless to say. But despite their importance, there are still hordes of people out there who punch in their name followed by ‘123’ to access their computer or e-mail account or Amazon.com profile.

Savvy, alert people, on the other hand, create passwords that include a hacker-safe assortment of capital and lowercase letters, numbers, odd word combinations and crafty neologisms. More importantly, though, they change these regularly.

So how does a smart-password-creating insurance agent keep track of his or her many rapidly changing and convoluted alpha-numeric passwords?

Should you write them down?