Password Manager Pro

Teams in many organizations today rely on an application or set of applications to carry out their business operations. These business applications introduce a mix of passwords that are freely shared among employees in each respective group. Some passwords are used thousands of times in a day—others, once a year. Whatever the case, failing to properly manage even the least important credential can cause severe security complications.

Challenges:

1. Insecure, traditional maintenance of passwords in easily accessible mediums such as printouts, offline spreadsheets, sticky notes, etc.
2. Password storage in plain text form without any encryption
3. Accountability issues and no clear records of password usage
4. Ensuring secure access to passwords for remote employees

With Password Manager Pro, you can:

1. Secure passwords in an AES-256 encrypted vault
2. Create specific password groups catering to respective teams, and provide exclusive access
3. Allow one-click logins to web applications and services without sharing passwords
4. Provide browser extensions and mobile applications to ensure quick access to passwords at all times
5. Facilitate transparency by logging every password checkout

Local administrator accounts grant absolute control over their hosts, i.e. the local Windows or Unix machine or instance they belong to. Most organizations try to manage their local admin accounts either by disabling them by default or leaving them under the care of their IT administrative staff. But both of these approaches come with their own security risks.

If the local administrator accounts' passwords are weak, left unchanged, or shared among IT staff, or if the accounts are not disabled, malicious users could easily gain unauthorized access to workstations. The worst-case scenario is an attacker with access to a local admin account could navigate widely across the network and even elevate their privileges to that of a domain administrator or a root account.

Challenges:

1. A huge Windows/Unix ecosystem with an unmanageable number of local admin accounts where manual supervision is not feasible
2. Automating local admin account password resets
3. Ensuring that every local admin account's password is unique instead of repeated for convenience

With Password Manager Pro, you can:

1. Easily discover all Windows/Unix servers and workstations while taking inventory of all associated local admin accounts in the vault
2. Perform a first-time bulk randomization of the local admin account passwords upon discovery, and set new strong, unique passwords
3. Schedule and automate regular credential rotation
4. Keep track of local admin account usage levels

Service accounts are used to run multiple services and tasks; a single account might run multiple services at a time. Service account passwords are generally set to "never change," to avoid the cumbersome work of discovering all dependent services and implementing the password change. However, static service accounts are an easy target for hackers.

Challenges:

1. Service accounts scattered across thousands of domain and member servers
2. Labor-intensive process of updating service account passwords
3. No clear ownership for service accounts

With Password Manager Pro, you can:

1. Locate service accounts with a powerful discovery engine and securely categorize them under the associated Windows domain controller
2. Fetch dependent services, scheduled tasks, IIS AppPools, and web app configuration files for every service account
3. Automate service account password resets and implement the change across all dependencies
4. Run custom scripts to execute instant service restarts for the password change to take effect to avoid service outages

Network devices come in various types (firewalls, routers, and switches) and every device carries a distinct configuration policy that helps ensure network security. Network device configurations usually contain access credentials, SNMP settings, access control lists, and other sensitive data that lures in hackers. In many organizations, the passwords used to control access to both these devices and configurations are also scattered across sources without proper, secure management. 

Challenges:

1. Resetting passwords of various devices in a multi-vendor network environment
2. No security policy enforcement

With Password Manager Pro, you can:

1. Directly reset the passwords of any SSH-based network device without having to access the command-line interface (CLI)
2. Enforce stringent policies for password strength and regular credential rotation

With both inside and outside threats posing an equal risk to cybersecurity, it can be challenging to establish central control on remote access operations without a robust intermediary.

Challenges:

1. Credentials of sensitive IT resources exposed in plain-text
2. Setting up multiple VPNs to let vendors from geographically distant locations connect remotely to the IT resources, and losing track of open ports
3. Remote users retrieve passwords from various insecure sources like Excel documents or hard copies
4. Identifying every device that a vendor has access to, and manually resetting all related passwords whenever their contract ends or is terminated
5. No visibility on user operations during privileged sessions
6. Having to deploy database query tools to connect to remote database servers
7. Utilizing multiple authentication stages through jump servers due to network segmentation, which demands users to manually supply a different credential at every hop

With Password Manager Pro, you can:

1. Launch direct Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Virtual Network Computing (VNC), and Secure Shell (SSH) sessions from any HTML5-compatible browser without endpoint agents, browser plug-ins, or helper programs. Eliminate the need for passwords to be entered locally in the user device.
2. Secure access gateways to establish reliable connections since communication to the remote device is encrypted and tunneled through Password Manager Pro's server.
3. Establish one-click connections to database servers from the web interface. Execute CRUD queries without any tools, and initiate safe SQL console sessions.
4. Introduce time limits for privileged sessions, after which the remote connections are aborted automatically and passwords are instantly reset
5. Use comprehensive reports to quickly generate the list of resources that third-parties have access to and subsequently initiate password changes
6. Enable users to launch automated connections to landing servers in data centers while Password Manager Pro executes all intermediate hops in the background. Eliminate the need to circulate server credentials among users

For an organization that maintains multiple subnetworks or DMZs as part of its IT infrastructure, centralizing credential management for the endpoints in those networks and ensuring connectivity between subnetworks poses a major challenge.

Challenges:

1. Firewall restrictions and other network segmentation best practices result in no direct access to the deployed servers and machines
2. Devices disconnect from the network for a certain period before reconnecting again
3. In case of data centers located in strategic sites, technicians often waste time completing intermediate hops before finally gaining access to the data center equipment

With Password Manager Pro, you can:

1. Deploy one-way agents to the remote hosts in isolated networks
2. Use the agents to execute remote password resets when the required administrator credentials are not stored locally in Password Manager Pro's server
3. Change the passwords of domain accounts without the administrative credentials of the domain controller
4. Automate quicker but secure connections to remote data centers by skipping hops and jumps

The communication process is usually automated by embedding the application credentials in clear text within configuration files, code, and scripts. But, while hard-coding credentials may make technicians' and engineers' jobs easier, it also creates an easy launch-point for hackers.

Challenges:

1. Password leaks across all systems where the application scripts are propagated
2. Identifying, changing, and managing embedded credentials, and initiating a password change in every system where the password is in use
3. Lax permissions and access controls around the configuration files in which the passwords are embedded 
4. Hard-coding, which creates a backdoor that allows attackers to bypass the configured authentication stage and execute arbitrary codes

With Password Manager Pro, you can:

1. Choose from three types of APIs for application-to-application password management—SSH-CLI, XML-RPC, and REST
2. Integrate with various CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, and Puppet using native plugins that ensure secure password retrieval from the vault every time a task is executed

Sensitive IT resources and their privileged credentials are better protected when every functional facet of an organization's IT infrastructure can be supervised from a unified platform. This is particularly true for PAM in today's modern IT landscape, as contextual integrations with IT service management (ITSM) or identity and access management (IAM) solutions facilitate advanced monitoring of privileged access requirements that originate from different points within an organization.

Challenges:

1. No visibility on privileged access needs that emerge from service requests in the organization's help desk
2. The enterprise-wide log collection system does not include PAM operations such as privileged password checkouts from the vault and remote sessions launched to sensitive resources

With Password Manager Pro, you can:

1. Contextually integrate with help desks such as ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, JIRA Service Desk, and ServiceNow to enable technicians to retrieve passwords themselves by submitting a valid ticket ID
2. Automatically capture password retrieval operations and their respective ticket IDs in Password Manager Pro's audit records
3. Correlate all password and privileged access activities—including those that transpire from the help desk—in one place by forwarding the logs to your enterprise SIEM system.

Recent surges in cyberattacks have heightened security concerns and, as a result, organizations today are required to adopt IT strategies that comply with various industry and government regulations. Standards like NIST, PCI-DSS, GDPR, FISMA, HIPAA, NERC-CIP, ISO-IEC 27001, SOX, ect. demand organizations deploy effective controls throughout their infrastructure and prove compliance through reports.

Challenges:

1. Lack of clarity about the standard privileged access control requirements that are commonly listed across important compliance regulations
2. Preparing compliance reports that specifically address PAM requisites as listed by regulations

With Password Manager Pro, you can:

1. Achieve compliance with privileged access control and management mandates outlined in various regulations
2. Generate audit-ready reports that prove adherence, and relay organizational security