Choose a Strong Password
Choose at least 10 characters, including at least three of the following four character types:

1. Uppercase letters
2. Lowercase letters
3. Numbers
4. Symbols found on your keyboard, such as ! * - ( ) : | / ?

Avoid words found in the dictionary, including names of famous places and people. Also, be sure to refrain from names or nicknames of people, pets, or places, or personal information that can be easily discovered, such as your address, birthday, or hobbies.

Don't include any of these:

1. Repeated characters, such as AAA or 555;
2. Alphabetic sequences, such as abc or CBA;
3. Numeric sequences, such as 123 or 321;
4. Common keyboard sequences, such as Qwerty or pas.

Password Tips
Your password should be easy for you to remember, but difficult for anyone else to guess.

Invent your own secret password, like this: s3cReT pAs5w*rD. Don't bother with simple substitutions, such as replacing the letter O with the number zero. Get creative with mixing numbers, symbols, and uppercase letters in your own way.

Or try a passphrase: a line from a favorite song, poem, etc. Take the first letter of each word and keep the punctuation, or pick one or two letters or symbols to represent each word, then mix in punctuation and numbers that are meaningful to you.

For example, the password ty18r’o90T mixes the first letter of each word in the song title "The Yellow Rose of Texas" with the year Texas Star Bank opened.

Don't use any of the example passwords shown here.