In an organization with thousands of servers and workstations, it can be difficult to securely manage privileged passwords:

• There are thousands of privileged passwords.
• Passwords are distributed across many devices.
• There are too many inter-dependencies between passwords.

One consequence of well known and static privileged passwords is that former IT workers know sensitive passwords. Another problem is that it is difficult to trace administrative changes back to individual IT staff.

Regulatory requirements for privacy protection and for corporate governance may require more robust management of privileged passwords.

Hitachi ID Privileged Password Manager (formerly ID-Archive) enables organizations to secure privileged passwords:

• It periodically randomizes every privileged password, with support for more than 70 types of servers and workstations.
• IT users must sign into Privileged Password Manager when they need to access a sensitive password.
• The password change and disclosure process creates strong, personal authentication, authorization over which passwords are visible to each user and an audit history of all access attempts (AAA).