The Best Gift for Father's Day is Helping Him Secure His Digital Legacy

Does your dad still ask you for his password? Does he still depend on you to remember which email he used for Facebook or how to recover his banking app? You're not alone.

- By DAWN SOLANO

Many dads from the boomer and late gen x era grew up in a time when the file-o-fax, rolodex, and clutch bag held all the important stuff. Now it's all up there in the cloud. So this Father's Day, skip the gadget gifts. Instead, help him take ownership of something far more meaningful: his digital legacy.

The fact is, senior citizens are more prone to hacking and phishing cybersecurity threats. As tech-savvy children, here's a checklist of simple steps we can use as a guide to keep his data safe and his future a bit more secure.

1. He needs his own password manager, and that's NOT you anymore

Let's be honest, he's probably still using the same password since his Rocketmail account in 1996. Introduce him to a password manager like Bitwarden or 1Password. These tools store and encrypt all his logins, so he only needs to remember one strong master password.