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Current LastPass users with personal accounts will need to unlink their personal accounts before migrating to the Keeper Enterprise account. Doing so will keep your personal information off the UA Enterprise server. Current users can follow these step-by-step instructions to unlink the accounts.

Keeper is a secure password management tool that can create and store passwords in an encrypted environment. LastPass Keeper is available as a browser tool, a desktop app, and a mobile device app. Students are eligible to use LastPass Premium Keeper Unlimited for personal passwords. Faculty and staff are eligible to use LastPass Premium Keeper Family Plan for personal passwords as well as LastPass Keeper Enterprise for University passwords. Learn more about getting started with LastPass on their YouTube channel.

Have questions? Visit our LastPass  Keeper FAQ page  for for answers to frequently asked common questions.

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to Obtain Keeper

Enterprise

Faculty and staff may register for an Enterprise LastPass Keeper account to store UA passwords.

Visit the link above to activate your LastPass Enterprise account with your myBama username and password. Once the account is activated, you will receive an email confirming the account. Click the link in the email to set your new LastPass Enterprise account master password. Make it a good password, it will protect all of your other UA passwords! The UA Enterprise LastPass Keeper account is protected with with Duo two-factor authentication, so be prepared to follow the Duo prompt with your Duo-registered device. If you are not an active Duo user, please activate your account at at duo.ua.edu.

Next, download the LastPass browser extensions. LastPass Keeper browser extension and desktop app. Keeper works as an extension of your browser to keep your passwords in a secure and encrypted environment. Download the extension for your browser at https://lastpassat www.keepersecurity.com/download-web. Once the browser extensions are installed, login with your new LastPass Keeper credentials and you’re ready to use LastPass!

Personal

Students, faculty and staff may register for a LastPass Premium personal account to store personal passwords. Personal accounts must be registered with non-UA email addresses. This is so that if your time with UA comes to an end, you will retain access of any personal passwords stored in LastPass.

Visit the link above to activate your LastPass Premium personal account. The UA LastPass Portal will request your UA email address as well as a personal email address.  UA will not have access to any of the information stored in your personal account. Your @ua.edu email address is required at this step only so that LastPass can confirm your status as a UA student or employee. You will then receive a confirmation email in your UA email inbox. Click the link in the email to confirm your account. You will then be directed to a webpage to set your LastPass master password. This is now the most important password because it will protect all of your other personal passwords. Make it a good one, and make it one you can remember! Once your password is set, you will confirm your account and you’ll be ready to use LastPass.

If you already have a personal LastPass account, please visit the link above to enter your UA email address and the email address associated with your personal account. This way, we can guarantee you receive the Premium version. If you already have the Premium version, one additional year of free Premium will be added to your account. 

Next, if you have not already, download the LastPass browser extensions. LastPass works as an extension of your browser to keep your passwords in a secure and encrypted environment. Download the extension for your browser at https://lastpass.com/download . You can also download the LastPass mobile app to your mobile device to keep your passwords secure on the go. Visit your device’s app store to download the app.

Once the browser extensions and mobile apps are installed, login with your new LastPass credentials and you’re ready to use LastPass!

Once a year, LastPass will send an email to confirm that you are still a current UA student, faculty or staff member to continue your free LastPass Premium account.

To learn more about LastPass, visit our FAQ page to see answers to frequently asked questions.

Family as a Benefit

Another benefit of using LastPass is that you can share the service with 5 family members! Learn more on the LastPass websiteKeeper! If you are transferring passwords from LastPass to Keeper, the desktop is the easiest way to do so. You can download the desktop app at www.keepersecurity.com/download-desktop.

Follow these step-by-step instructions to migrate from LastPass to Keeper.

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Keeper Family as Benefit Plan

All Keeper Enterprise users can create a free, Keeper Family Plan for up to 5 family members with unlimited devices. Once the user sets up the Family Plan, each family member receives their own vault. They can also share passwords between family members using either Shared Folders or individual record sharing. You can learn how to create a free Family Plan account from an Enterprise account at docs.keeper.io/enterprise-guide/personal-vaults-for-enterprise-and-business-users. If your time with UA comes to an end, Keeper will transition your account to a 30-day “Free Trial” account. 

If you still have questions, you can visit our Keeper FAQ Page.

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Student Personal Accounts

Free Keeper Unlimited licenses for students will be available soon. Please check this page often for updates.