The Security Center is a tool that allows you to evaluate the strength of your passwords.
Your Security Score is calculated based on the following factors:
- Number of reused passwords
- Number of duplicated Logins (username and password combinations)
- Strength of individual passwords
How to Access the Security Center
On Windows and Mac:
1) Open your browser and click the RoboForm extension icon. Then, click the "House" icon in the upper left corner.
2) You will be brought to the Start Page. To access the Security Center from the Start Page, click "Security Center" in the bottom left corner.
On iOS:
Open the RoboForm app. Then, tap "Tools" in the bottom right, and then tap the "Security Center" option.
On Android:
Open the RoboForm app. Then, tap "Tools" in the bottom right, and then tap the "Security Center" option.
Security Overview
Once in the Security Center, you will be on the Security Overview tab.
Here you will see your Security Score displayed at the top of the window, with the individual password breakdown below. Clicking "Show more" beneath your Security Score will present you with a more detailed breakdown of the strength of your passwords.
Password strength for individual passwords is calculated using an algorithm based on zxcvbn. Logins can be sorted based on Name, Password Strength, or Age (starting with when they were stored in RoboForm).
NOTE: Sorting by age is only possible in the Weak, Reused, and All tabs.
When you first open the Security Center, you will be on the Compromised Tab. To update a Compromised Login, or to increase a weak password’s individual strength and, by extension, the overall Security Score, hover your mouse over a Login and click the "Log In" (play button) button which will appear. Then, use the site’s procedure to update the password using the RoboForm Password Generator. Once saved in RoboForm, the Security Center will recalculate the score.
Compromised
The Compromised tab contains Logins with passwords that have previously been seen in a documented data breach where hackers released the stolen data publicly or sold it on the dark web. To learn more about Compromised Passwords and what to do if you see them, click here.
Weak
The Weak tab contains Logins with passwords which have a weak password strength score. We recommend that you update these passwords using the RoboForm Password Generator. To read our tutorial on using the RoboForm Password Generator, click here.
While viewing a Login with a password rated as Weak, you can view an explanation on why it was rated that way.
Reused
The Reused tab contains Logins with passwords you have reused multiple times. These passwords are grouped together based on their respective Logins.
All
The All tab contains all of your RoboForm Logins along with their Password Strength and Age.
Complete Duplicates
The Complete Duplicates tab contains Logins which have an identical username and password. The Security Center makes finding and deleting them a one-step process.
Excluded
The Excluded tab contains Logins which you have selected to be excluded from your Security Score calculation. To learn how to exclude a Login from your Security Score, click here.
Data Breach Monitoring Overview
NOTE: RoboForm's Data Breach Monitoring feature is only available through the Security Center on the RoboForm desktop browser extension. It is not currently available on RoboForm's mobile applications, but will be added in a future update.
Next to the Security Overview tab, you will see the Data Breach Monitoring tab. RoboForm's Data Breach Monitoring scans for data breaches containing your email addresses and personal information using the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) database.
On this tab, you can add emails you would like RoboForm to monitor for data breaches. If RoboForm detects breaches containing data connected to your email, you will see them listed here.
Clicking on an email that RoboForm has detected in a breach will display a list of breaches containing a Breach Date, Breach Description, a list of the types of data compromised in the breach, and a recommended action for improving your security.
In the example below, RoboForm recommends that you change your password for the affected account using the RoboForm Password Generator.
Click here for our tutorial on using the RoboForm Password Generator.
For more information about what Data Breach Monitoring is, click here.
For our tutorial on how to set up and use Data Breach Monitoring, click here.
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