In the era of digital data, ‘Secure Password Sharing’ is not optional, it’s critical. Mismanaged passwords can lead to vulnerabilities, risking your important data. That’s where Passpack comes in, offering a secure solution to mitigate these risks. Let’s delve into the secure password sharing features offered by Passpack.
Raise your hand if you’ve ever:
- Kept a list of passwords on a printed or digital spreadsheet
- Written a password on a sticky note and left it on your monitor
- Stored passwords on your phone
- Shouted a password across the room
- Changed a password and forgot to tell others
We thought so. Insecure password sharing. We’re all guilty of it at some point, but it depends on the circumstances.
It might be okay when you’re talking about sharing the Netflix password with the kids or a credit card PIN with your spouse, (and even then, families should be using a centralized password management app for all their accounts).
But it’s definitely NOT okay to bring these poor password practices into business settings when there are many people, vendors, and contractors outside your “circle of trust” and those passwords control access to valuable company and customer data.
Sharing passwords in any environment must be done properly and securely, with identified roles, rules, and responsibilities for creating, managing, sharing, and monitoring password use.
The dangers of insecure password sharing
There are inherent risks to password sharing, especially in business environments where teams of users share access to the same resources. It’s a necessary evil.
- With multiple entry points to the same resource, your cyberattack surface is increased. One mistake by one unsuspecting user exposes the entire team’s assets to theft, fraud, falsification, or ransomware.
- Many users have poor password hygiene habits, creating weak or slightly different versions of the same core character string for multiple accounts. Hackers are smart. After they have accessed one resource, they will attempt to exploit related company systems by guessing at variations of the discovered password. This also might lead to cyberattacks on other businesses and partners up and down the supply chain.
- One user can change a password without permission and lock the rest of the team out of a shared resource, impacting productivity for all until access is restored. This might be the result of an innocent mistake, or it could be a malicious attempt by a former employee to disrupt the business.
- Without a centralized password management solution in place there is no accountability for who has access to which accounts. You’ll never know who is responsible for a breach. That also means every time an employee or vendor leaves, every password in the entire organization must be updated and distributed to the proper users – a huge time suck for IT administrators.
- When individual users keep a list of their passwords on a sheet of paper under their desk blotter, on their phone, or stored in their web browser, all it takes is one moment without oversight for anyone with bad intentions to steal company credentials. These practices should be strongly discouraged.
Passpack Team Password Management is the answer
In the workplace the quality of passwords should be better, rules for creating them should be enforced, the security around sharing them should be enhanced, and visibility into user activity for monitoring and cyber defense purposes should be supported.
Passpack’s centralized team password management solution checks all the boxes for secure password creation, team password sharing, and management:
- Centralized administrator control. All requests for creating new passwords, adding and deleting users, and updating current passwords must pass through a central password administrator. This person grants access to users and has visibility into every user’s credentials. Users do NOT have access to other user’s passwords, only their own.
- End-to-end encryption. When passwords are shared out from the administrator they are encrypted during transmission and can only be decrypted on the user’s device, meaning passwords are safe while in transit and at rest.
- Built in password generator tool. Set minimum standards for the length, types, and strength of character strings. Disallow the use of similar or recycled passwords.
- Zero-knowledge architecture. Built on zero-knowledge system architecture, combined with cutting-edge encryption and continuous verification, the Passpack environment is highly secure. Passpack never has access to the encryption keys required to access the user’s information. Importantly, the data is never available to Passpack employees or outside parties. End-users retain full access and control over their data; it can only be decrypted and accessed on the customer’s local system.
- Two-factor authentication. When activated, this feature requires a second piece of data known only by the recipient to confirm their identity before granting access to a resource or account.
- Role-based access control. Stop giving every user every password. Passpack allows administrators to segment users into discreet teams and grant access to only the resources needed by that team. Immediately delete access for employees that leave the organization without disrupting the permissions of the remaining members on the team.
- Individual read/write control. Administrators can allow some users to only see passwords while granting others the ability to create or change passwords as well.
- Granular reporting. See user activity histories for traceability in the event of a breach.
Unlock the power of secure password sharing with Passpack
With Passpack overseeing your organization’s password creation, sharing, and management policies, you can rest easy knowing your digital assets are always protected. Stronger password use with encrypted sharing enhances overall cybersecurity. User passwords and credentials are always safe, known to no one else, yet are easily changed.
A closed environment through a centralized administrator with 360° visibility into all users and passwords means you always know exactly who has access to what, and when they used it.
The Passpack application offers a user-friendly interface for simple administration and is infinitely scalable. Passpack is excellent for SMEs as well as freelancers and families – anyone who needs to securely organize and manage dozens of credentials for access to all types of digital assets. Raise your hand if that’s you.
Passpack takes the risks out of password sharing. We offer a number of versatile subscription plans all at a low cost per user. Visit us at Passpack.com and try our solution free for 28 days to see how easy and affordable it is to unlock the power of secure password sharing with Passpack.