The following is a quick guide to setup LastPass and creating new secure notes for saving password information. For more information, you can also have a look at https://helpdesk.lastpass.com/

 

Open the mail from LastPass and activate your account:

You will be required to enter a new master password. Note that this is a company version so it would be best not to save personal password information.

Once you have completed this you will need to install the necessary browser add-on. Once installed you will have the LastPass icon on your browser.

Clicking on the icon and selecting “My Vault” will take you to the main site where we will be storing all the password information

Users can add to the existing structure. The main components that we will be adding will be Site, Folders & Secure notes.

All passwords & information will be added as secure notes. The user has a range of secure note types that they can select from. The 3 most useful secure note types are Server, Database & Generic.

When creating a new secure note, the note will be associated with the relevant folder.

 

As you build up your data the secure notes will be stored under the relevant folder.

 To get rid of some nuisance functions when using this only to capture business/project related information you can select Preferences when clicking on the LastPass icon and select preferences. Untick the following: