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Understanding LastPass Teams/Enterprise invitations You might be invited to join a LastPass “Teams” or “Enterprise” account, associated with your business or organisation. You may be told about this invitation some time in advance, and will then receive an email from LastPass giving you some options for joining that Teams or Enterprise account. When you join a Teams/Enterprise account, you are essentially creating an area within your organisation’s wider LastPass account. The administrator for the organisation’s Teams/Enterprise account can apply policies to control how you interact with LastPass and the secrets inside of LastPass. These policies can include minimum password strength;

Teams/Enterprise – Existing account with work email You may have an existing LastPass personal/free account that is associated with your work/organisation email address. You might then receive an invitation to join a Teams/Enterprise account, and that invitation is sent to the same work email address as is already associated with your personal/free account. You then need to make a choice, depending on your circumstances, as follows: (Either) You store both personal and work things in your existing LastPass account: In this case you probably want to change the email address associated with your existing LastPass personal/free account, so you can

Teams/Enterprise – Existing account associated with personal email address If you already have a LastPass personal/free account that is associated with a personal (non-work, non-organisation) email address, you should go ahead and accept the invitation to set up a new LastPass account, associated with your work/organisation email address, that will be part of the Team/Enterprise account. When you receive your invitation email, the steps you should follow are: Copy the Activation code and then click on Activate LastPass. This will take you to your Web browser and you will see an Account Activation form. Paste the Activation code from the

Linking your personal account to your Teams/Enterprise account If you already have a personal/free LastPass account, associated with an email address that is *not* your work/organisation email address, you can link that account into your Teams/Enterprise account in a way that allows you to see, use and file personal secrets in your personal “vault” (and also allows you to see, use and file work/organisation secrets in your Teams/Enterprise vault and shared folders). The steps for linking your personal account into your Teams/Enterprise account are: Log in to LastPass and access your Vault by doing either of the following: Go to https://lastpass.com/?ac=1 and

Isn’t this less convenient? Yes, it might seem like it. Using the same, simple password everywhere is probably the most convenient way to authenticate to all the services you need to log into during your working week (and your personal life). But that’s not the end of it! We like to say that there is a scale with ‘Convenience’ at one end and ‘Security’ at the other end. Most prefer to to live right down the ‘Convenience’ end of that scale. However we now all understand that we have to move along that scale in the direction of ‘Security’. The Internet has

Understanding the LastPass notifications Password Update Notifications: If you update a password for an existing site, LastPass will detect that change and you will see a browser popup asking you whether you want to update the stored password for that site.  If you do indeed want to update this item, click Update.  Otherwise click Not now. If you have two similar looking items for the relevant site, but with a different usernames, LastPass will send you a browser popup to ask which account should it update (if any). Click the account you want to update, then click Update. New Site Notifications: If