Step up your online shopping game with C2 Password

This holiday season, let C2 Password make your life easier

With cozy sweaters covering your layered outfits and Christmas lights up on the streets, you know it’s the festive time of the year. More importantly, ’tis the season to send your love and wishes to family and friends with a little something - likely something that you grabbed from the Black Friday or Cyber Monday sales.

Although some businesses are expecting to see more in-store foot traffic this year than ever, eCommerce is still projected to account for a major part of the holiday spending splurge according to the Adobe Digital Economy Index. Even the retail giant Target has just announced that it’ll no longer open its stores on Thanksgiving Day, making the post-turkey Target run a thing of the past. With so many transactions shifting into the digital space, cyber criminals seem to have more points of entry than ever. In fact, the McAfee Enterprise COVID-19 dashboard points out that 5.6% of the total detected cyber threats come from the global retail industry, highlighting the importance of protecting your sensitive info while purchasing during the shopping frenzy.

And the conundrum of holiday shopping doesn’t just stop here. Amidst the swirl of time-limited offers, you might often find yourself having to fill in personal and card info over and over again at checkout while trying to snap the best deals before they’re gone. Now, you might be thinking that your favorite platform (say, Amazon) has your payment methods and recipient data on file, but what if you happen to spot a gem on a site you’ve never used before? A study by the marketing firm Sleeknote shows that out of the 69.57% cart abandonment rate across all industries, mandatory signup is the No. 2 reason why people give up on their purchases. For this reason, a lot of online merchants are now offering guest checkout to up their conversion rate, which does save you from being forced to create an account and the subsequent barrage of promotional emails, but certainly not the need to manually input your details… yet again.

So how do you skip the hassle of entering the same info repeatedly while guarding against cyber crooks who’re also gearing up just as the rest of us are ahead of the holiday shopping event? Well, an effective password management solution might just be the answer you’re looking for.

What do we talk about when we talk about password manager When it comes to password management services, you know it’s a good one if it can remember the login and payment info for all your eCommerce accounts and automatically fill in these credentials on your preferred sites. As most of us are on multiple screens nowadays, such a service should also support cross-device syncing so you can shop from either your phone, laptop, or anywhere you’d like. And of course, it has to provide bulletproof security.

Synology C2 comes in handy C2 Password is a centralized password manager where you can fully control and organize not just your passwords but all your sensitive info from one single tool, be it your login credentials, card info, bank account details, and PII (Personally Identifiable Information) like name, birthday, address, etc. Accessible from the web portal and browser extensions for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge with mobile versions coming soon, the service syncs your data on multiple devices for you to shop from whichever screen you prefer. It also stores your usernames and passwords for assisted login so you don’t have to recycle or reuse any passcode and keep the risk of data theft at bay. In addition, C2 Password auto-fills your payment, shipping, and contact info when you’re in the cutthroat race to secure holiday deals that are only available for a short window of time, helping you to get the most out of the flash sales.

Data security in your hands With so much sensitive data stored in one place, surely you’d be wondering: how does the C2 password manager keep it all safe and sound? For the security of what you store in your personal vault, the service adopts AES 256-bit end-to-end encryption and a zero-knowledge mechanism where the key used for encrypting and decrypting purposes (C2 Key) never leaves your devices - that’s right, not even shared with Synology servers. Besides the option of signing in with your master password, you can also choose to enable the TOTP (Time-based One-Time Password) feature. This way, each time you try to log into C2 Password, the system asks for a TOTP generated on a mobile device to shield your accounts from any illegal attempts. Meanwhile, if you’re struggling to come up with a strong enough passcode that meets system requirements, you can also rely on the built-in password generator to create one for you, with customizable length and strength levels that suit your needs while memorizing it with extreme reliability.

So this holiday season, stay safe and enjoy your time browsing gifts for your loved ones, and let C2 Password do the heavy lifting for you by providing airtight security and a streamlined shopping experience. Also, check out our C2 Password intro for a more detailed look at the management platform and start finding your way around it with the Free plan. Take your time, though, because we won’t be rushing you like the holiday deals do!

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